Memphis Choralarts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263692795
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Memphis, TN, USA
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Singing, Choral

Reported finances

Revenue
$65,517
Expenses
$65,349
Assets
$28,890

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

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Amanda Grisham (Executive Director)
  • Nancy Kincaide (Executive Director)
  • Janette McCall (President)

People named in this filing

  • Joseph Powell (Artistic Director)
  • Jordan Smith (Memphis Youth Chorale Director)
  • Adrian Maclin (Assistant Artistic Director)

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

The singers of the ensembles of Memphis ChoralArts are musicians as diverse as the Memphis community we represent. We are joined together to understand and perform great choral literature from masterworks of previous centuries to contemporary works. Our goal is to provide the best possible musical experience for our members and to present performances of the highest quality to our audiences. We seek to partner with other arts and service organizations in the Greater Memphis Area when the presentation of compatible themes can enrich enlarge and engage our shared audiences. Memphis ChoralArts remains committed to the goal of Sing for Life.

What it reported doing in 2025

In February the Memphis Mens Chorale of Memphis ChoralArts presented Let All Men Sing: An American Voice. This concert was a collaboration between two of Memphis premiere community ensembles the Memphis Mens Chorale of Memphis ChoralArts and Memphis Wind Symphony. The Memphis Mens Chorale Director and Assistant Director of MCA Adrian Maclin and MCAs Artistic Director Joseph Powell worked directly with Barry Trobaugh director of the Memphis Wind Symphony in the design and execution of the artistic aspects of the project. This concert featured The Testament of Freedom by Randall Thompson a setting of passages from the writings of Thomas Jefferson.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 72% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 55.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -23.4% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12.3% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $55K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.