International Choral Festival Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
810459276
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Missoula, MT, USA
Phone
4069360393
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Singing, Choral

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$103,246
Expenses
$55,210
Assets
$188,483

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SAXON HOLBROOK (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ALI WINBERRY (DIRECTOR)
  • LISA BUSEMAN (TREASURER)
  • DAVID HEIDEL (ARTISTIC DIR)

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 international choral festival exists to promote world peace and understanding by sponsoring a choral festival every three years that invites choirs form all locations and cultures across the globe to missoula, Montana for the purpose of performing choral music and promoting peace and understanding. The last festival took place in 2023, our next festival will be held in 2025.

What it reported doing in 2024

This is a once every two-year festival, and id last took place in 2023. The festival involves many components supporting 4 days of choral music performances. Services include scheduling, meals, soliciting approximately 100 volunteers and host families for the festival, choir travel and logistics, and other miscellaneous services. The festival expenses total 200,000 and the last festival benefitted over 10,000 festival-goers and international choristers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 40.2%; rating input score 40
  • Program expense ratio: 69.5%; rating input score 70

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 46.5%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.41; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 58.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 40.2% of revenue deployed · 69.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.