Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411747145
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Rochester, MN, US
- Phone
- (507) 252-0505
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $348,370
- Expenses
- $376,712
- Assets
- $410,316
- Liabilities
- $276,621
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY ANDERSON (PRESIDENT)
- DEANNE WALLENSTEIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SIMON GLASER (FORMER PRESIDENT)
- JAYNE ROTHSCHILD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JAYNE ROTHSCHILD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $62,487 total reported compensation
- KARRI CAMPBELL (ADMINISTRATOR): $33,853 total reported compensation
- RICHARD KVAM (ADMINISTRATOR): $24,041 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To instill in young people the joy of working together to make something beautiful is a powerful process, often a life-changing experience that reverberates well beyond the singer's musical pursuit.
What it reported doing in 2024
Promotion and marketing of choir and choir activities.
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 96% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 81.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $306K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.