Gulf Coast Guard and Percussion Circuit Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922063117
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Pensacola, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8502065739
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,942
- Expenses
- $51,422
- Assets
- $14,010
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Terry Sanders (President)
People named in this filing
- Terry Sanders (President)
- Leo Finuliar (Title Director)
- Jerry Holzworth (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
To assist area color guard, percussion and wind ensembles financially and through leadership in achieving a means to provide opportunity for competition corresponding but not limited to the Winter Guard International's rules and guidelines. To provide a means to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information on subjects of common interest, namely winter guard and winter percussion.
What it reported doing in 2025
Gulf Coast Guard and Percussion Circuit successfully supported over 33 schools which combined had 51 units, and over 816 students and participants ranging from elementary school to senior guard programs. Gulf Coast Guard and Percussion Circuit also supported a winds group this year. The program gave 4 scholarships to 4 students, 2 in indoor percussion and 2 from indoor winter guard groups.
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 93% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 42.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.