Kirkwood Children's Chorale Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431691563
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Kirkwood, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3144716786
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,040
- Expenses
- $9,051
- Assets
- $49,844
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KURT LEEMANN (PRESIDENT)
- GABRIELLE PIERLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- KURT LEEMANN (PRESIDENT)
- BEVERLY FEARS (SECRETARY)
- BRETT KELLEY (TREASURER)
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
To provide quality, singer-focused vocal training in a program that promotes fun, friendship, confidence, and success.
What it reported doing in 2024
Kirkwood children's chorale (dba crescendo youth choirs) welcomes singers from 1st through 12th grade. A typical season runs from late august or early september through may. To carry out its mission, crescendo's artistic staff schedules 30 rehearsals each season. During these rehearsals, singers are introduced to a high-quality and diverse musical repertoire. The artistic staff emphasizes proper vocal technique and musical literacy at levels that are both challenging and developmentally appropriate. High expectations are set, resulting in multiple performance opportunities.crescendo produces two formal concerts each year. The artistic director selects acoustically rich venues that highlight the effort and talent of the singers. Over the years, crescendo has been invited to collaborate and perform with a variety of distinguished organizations and artists, including the music departments of Washington university and siuedwardsville, soprano sissel kyrkjeb, soprano benedetta orsi, susan slaughter and the st. Louis brass, the st. Louis philharmonic, the st. Louis wind symphony, and the st. Louis women's chorus. The choir has also performed in 13 states and Washington d.c., and completed tours of eight foreign countries, performing with their overseas peers participating in musical festivals and culturally rich experiences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.9%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
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: 49.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.51; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 135.3%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.9% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2013 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.