Mirandola Ensemble

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452573847
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Richfield, MN, USA
Phone
6128898960
Rating
53
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Singing, Choral

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$66,815
Expenses
$66,425
Assets
$23,960
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Nicholas Chalmers (Artistic Director, Board Member)
  • Kyle Ubl (Board Member)
  • Steven Norman (Board Member)

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 Mirandola Ensemble performs Renissance-era choral music and educates school-age and other audiences on vocal performance technique, music as 'high art' in the Western tradition, and the aesthetics of the Renaissance. The ensemble is dedicated to promoting the highest standards of vocal performance through its concerts and educational programs.

What it reported doing in 2025

Minnesota Public Radio Class Notes choral educational programs at K-12 schools in Minnesota. Present music from the globe to students and instruct on ensemble singing, singing with good health, and listening and using senses while singing. Presented to 6 schools representing elementary through high school students. Expense is payment to singers/educators (independent contractors).

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 22
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 22.3%; rating input score 22
  • Program expense ratio: 22.4%; rating input score 22

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: 0.6%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -59.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 22.3% of revenue deployed · 22.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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.

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 22/100.
  • 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 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.