Houston Grand Opera Guild Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
740016764
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
7135460200
Rating
49
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$21,332
Expenses
$23,708
Assets
$67,696
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Janet Sims (President)

People named in this filing

  • Janet Sims (President)
  • Jennifer Sickler (Legal Counsel)
  • Jerry Bohanon (Parliamentarian)

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

The Houston Grand Opera Guild provides volunteers to the Houston Grand Opera Association to support its programming in the Houston, TX community.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Houston Grand Opera Guild provides volunteers to support the Sarah and Ernest Butler HGO Studio. Guild members volunteer at HGO's Concert of Arias, its annual competition for young singers. This event helps identify talented young singers who may join the Butler HGO Studio program. Guild volunteers act as buddies to Butler Studio participants and provide hospitality services (underwritten by the Guild). The Houston Grand Opera Guild provides volunteers to support HGO's Rehearsal Planning and Artist Services department. Guild members volunteer to assist with artist errands, transportation, and hospitality. The Guild provides opening night gifts and green room hospitality, both underwritten by the Guild.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 67% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 27
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 27.9%; rating input score 28
  • Program expense ratio: 25.1%; rating input score 25

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.86; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -10.9% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 27.9% of revenue deployed · 25.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.