Long Beach Youth Chorus

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883585885
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Long Beach, CA, USA
Phone
5629723324
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Singing, Choral

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$156,366
Expenses
$167,505
Assets
$10,378
Liabilities
$1,726

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ron Roesler (President)

People named in this filing

  • Mary E Barton (Secretary)
  • Stan DeWitt (Executive Dir.)
  • Gina Cabrera (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to be a diverse multi-chorus organization that provides every child in the region with the opportunity to perform in a choir.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Long Beach Youth Chorus has significant accomplishments in our 25-26 season. Besides our three regular season concerts, our singers sang at six other events in Long Beach. In addition, we took our first major tour in June of 2026 to New York City, where our singers sang two performances in Carnegie Hall. Our enrollment stayed near 60 kids, grades 2-12, in four different choirs: Young Musicians Program (grades 2-6), Master Singers and Chamber Choir (grades 7-12) and an after-school choir at Intellectual Virtues Academy Middle School. It was a very successful year for the Chorus musically, with many of the older kids taking on leadership roles in the Chorus and really honing their musicianship skills.

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

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: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93

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: -7.1%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 45.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 42.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $156K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.