Highland High School Orchestra Boosters

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860764239
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Gilbert, AZ, USA
Phone
4808130051
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Parent/Teacher Group

Reported finances

Revenue
$96,814
Expenses
$130,246
Assets
$112,597
Liabilities
$26,899

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Victoria Vega (Past President)
  • Jenna Dean (Vice President)
  • Gretchen Arciniega (President as of 4/2025)

People named in this filing

  • Victoria Vega (Past President)
  • Jenna Dean (Vice President)
  • Ruth Giauque (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Highland High School Orchestra Boosters exists to support the musical teaching and training of over 250 students by the orchestra department of Highland High School, a school in the Gilbert Public School District in AZ. Activities include concerts, clinics, and educational performance and performing tours.

What it reported doing in 2024

General musical program support - Boosters expenses included purchase, repair and upkeep of instruments; music acquisition or license fees; concert production costs such as program printing and hall decor; coordination and payment to clinicians to work with the orchestra as a whole or for specific sections of the orchestra; planning and facilitating retreats and performance travel; administrate uniform purchase and or rental for all 250 plus students.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 96.5%; rating input score 96

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -34.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $126K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.