Joyful Noise Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061329927
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Torrington, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8606060644
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Theater
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $117,254
- Expenses
- $108,114
- Assets
- $29,594
- Liabilities
- $18,701
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Heather Thomson (Chairman)
- Patricia Nevin (Director)
- Rebecca Bottari (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
Joyful Noise, Inc., is a choral orgainzation whose mission is to develop and nurture, in singers of all ages, a passion for choral singing and the ability to achieve the highest standards of artistic accomplishment, present a series of concerts featuring a wide spectrum of music, and to enrich the singers and the communities for whom they perform through choral music.
What it reported doing in 2024
Choral education program for singers age 4-19
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79
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: 7.8%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.