Grand Rapids Womens Chorus
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383343645
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5172907633
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,175
- Expenses
- $125,321
- Assets
- $92,314
- Liabilities
- $482
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
People named in this filing
- KRISTIN BAUER (BOARD CHAIR)
- CHERYL BEATTY (TREASURER)
- MONICA BROTHERS (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Perform/Educate/Create Choral Music By Women
What it reported doing in 2025
Produced 2 concerts each held over 2 consecutive nights. Attendance 750 for Winter concerts, 625 for Spring concerts programmed educational workshops presented cantata about activist, lawyer, poet, and priest Pauli Murray.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.5%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 47.4%; rating input score 47
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.5% of revenue deployed · 47.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.