Her Voice Productions Dba Twin Cities Womens Choir
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411927516
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6123338292
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $180,375
- Expenses
- $153,358
- Assets
- $76,529
- Liabilities
- $2,976
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sandra Sherman (President)
- Sage Walen (President-Elect)
- Karleen Kos (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Elisa Olson (Executive Dir.): $37,023 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Her Voice Productions is a diverse community that sings, performs, and affirms the voices of women and girls.
What it reported doing in 2019
The Twin Cities Girls' Choir is dedicated to providing quality music education through our girls' choir program. In addition to a quality music education experience, our girls' organization provides young women from throughout the Twin Cities area with an uplifting, cooperative environment where they can develop positive social and leadership skills. The choir also collaborates with the Twin Cities Women's Choir. The performed for over 10,000 audience members. In this year, the choir had 31 singing students and 20 volunteers. The choir has a scholarship program to assist families in need with the costs of participation. The choir also puts on a retreat for students to promote community-building and to encourage leadership and investment in our musical programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $133K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $37K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 to 2019
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.