Mario Lanza Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232142021
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2152389691
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,298
- Expenses
- $32,697
- Assets
- $36,369
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM J RONAYNE (PRESIDENT&TR)
People named in this filing
- WILLIAM J RONAYNE (PRESIDENT&TR)
- MICHAEL A GIANGIORDANO (VICE PRESIDE)
- GERARD CRAVELLO (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
To perpetuate and promote the legacy and accomplishments of mario lanza through the maintenance of a museum and the awarding of scholarships in the singer's name to provide musically talented young people with the opportunity and incentive to study music.
What it reported doing in 2025
Awarded mario lanza scholarships and audition encouragement awards to both perpetuate and promote the singers' accomplishments and provide musically talented people the opportunity and incentive to study music.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.2%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 14
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.5%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 50; 50th 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: -14.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.2% of revenue deployed · 13.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.