La Grange Band Booster Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742888934
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- La Grange, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9792035222
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $138,101
- Expenses
- $155,575
- Assets
- $49,637
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA MELTON (Vice President)
- LISA MURAS (President)
People named in this filing
- JESSICA MELTON (Vice President)
- BLYTHE CONE (Treasurer)
- RHEA WAGNER (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
The organization's mission is to encourage and promote assistance programs that will provide the elements necessary to be supportive to the members of the lgisd band programs, in such a manner that the students' interest and education are kept foremost in mind.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization was able to achieve its purpose by supporting the lgisd band program in various ways such as providing meals for the high school band for three away football games, provide bus chaperones for all away football games and other events requiring bus transportation, supporting all bands' spring trips by paying for the bus transportation and/or entry fees, provide decorations at the band banquet, paying a portion of summer band camp for those who attended, paying for private tutoring for those who desired tutoring but could not afford it, paying for master class instructors and various consultants who worked with different sections of the band and/or the band as a whole, purchase needed instruments and equipment for the band, and provide scholarships for graduating seniors who earned a scholarship and who are continuing their education. The organization is visible at lhs and in the community in these ways: soccer, baseball, and tennis concessions; fall and spring fundraiser meals; friday night football game helping with band logistics; bus chaperoning; fall, winter, and spring concert speakers; and band banquet decorating.
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 88% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
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: -12.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $138K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.