Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 954866788
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3102349600
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-14,900
- Expenses
- $4,991
- Assets
- $4,666
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAND HARRIS (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- RAND HARRIS (President & CEO)
- HILLARY HEYL (Treasurer)
- LESLIE D CRAFT (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
Our mission is to preserve, perform and educate audiences in america and abroad about jewish and jewish-themed music - with an emphasis on music written by southern California composers.founded in 1997, lazc performs in venues throughout southrn California and around the globe. Lazc will raise funds to support its diverse activities through private donations and grants.
What it reported doing in 2024
The los angeles zimriyah chorale ('lazc') is a master choir dedicated to performing jewish music and music of the jewish experince throughout time. Under the leadership of music director strimple, lazc performs contemporary, classical and traditional pieces written by jewish composers and others, ranging from liturgical to secular, folk and compositions based on biblical themes. Our repertoire embraces modern composers such as kurt weill, george gershwin, arnold schoenberg, aminadav aloni, michael issacson, david nowakosky and max helfman, as well as predecessors like george friedrich handel and salamone rossi. Our mission is to preserve, perform and educate audiences in america and abroad about jewish and jewish-themed music - with an emphasis on music written by southern California composers. Founded in 1997, lazc performs in venues throughout southern California and around the globe. Lazc will raise funds to support its diverse activities through private donations and grants.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -133.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.