Master Chorale of South Florida Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743096907
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9546412653
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $694,609
- Expenses
- $661,132
- Assets
- $337,698
- Liabilities
- $19,233
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Edward Gargiulo (Executive Director (ex-officio))
- Ronald Herron (President)
- Joseph Wert (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Brett Karlin (Artistic Director/Conductor (ex-officio)): $79,350 total reported compensation
- Kathy Sedlack (Administrator): $37,583 total reported compensation
- Edward Gargiulo (Executive Director (ex-officio)): $33,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To present choral music concerts of the highest musical excellence, promote the art of choral singing, serve a diverse population, be recognized as a premier choral organization locally and beyond, and foster in audiences the unity and joy expressed through the common language of singing.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization held rehearsals and presented four series of choral concerts with orchestral musicians and soloists in two South Florida venues each series. Each of the organization's musical performances provided wonderful musical experiences for over 1,000 residents of South Florida. These performances included orchestral musicians and soloists renowned for their musical skills.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.6%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 64.7%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.6% of revenue deployed · 64.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $428K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $79K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.