Lux Cantorum Chicago
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363595476
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7735837227
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,271
- Expenses
- $41,570
- Assets
- $80,154
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Gernand (President)
People named in this filing
- Christopher Gernand (President)
- Brenda Kenyon (Secretary)
- Terry Ohrlund (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
Present concerts of sacred music and educate the public
What it reported doing in 2024
Presented Holiday concert in December and Spring concert in May. Recording concerts and making concerts available remotely to those unable to attend.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Assets have declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- 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: 10.2%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.93; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 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.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.