Minnesota Chorale
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237272193
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, US
- Phone
- 612-333-4866
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $439,800
- Expenses
- $446,045
- Assets
- $143,348
- Liabilities
- $15,495
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALYSSA K BREECE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARIELLEN JACOBSON (PRESIDENT)
- LAURA AMOS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ALYSSA K BREECE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $65,208 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We sing together to unite people and amplify diverse voices through rigorous artistic practice and joyous collaboration.
What it reported doing in 2024
Comprised of ensembles for singers from ages 8 to 80-plus, the Minnesota chorale is a multi-generational umbrella organization. With the founding of the minneapolis youth chorus in 2007, the chorale deepened its community connections offering choral opportunities for minneapolis school students. Those in grades 6 through 8 develop their musical gifts in an environment dedicated to the celebration of diversity and the pursuit of artistic excellence. Myc's prelude children's choir, for children in grades 3 through 5, provides an introductory choral experience for younger singers. Voices of experience, established in 2010 in partnership with the macphail center for music, offers mature singers opportunities to achieve vocal excellence and enrich the community through song.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.3%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72.3% of revenue deployed · 71.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $317K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.