Mountain Collegium

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272264133
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Charlotte, NC, USA
Phone
7702650032
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Folk Arts

Reported finances

Revenue
$124,055
Expenses
$99,075
Assets
$91,792
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gail Schroeder (President, Assistant Workshop Director, Faculty)
  • Christine Spencer (Vice President, Registrar)

People named in this filing

  • Jody Miller (Workshop Director, Faculty)
  • Gail Schroeder (President, Assistant Workshop Director, Faculty)
  • Barbara Stark (Treasurer)

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

Hold workshop for music and dance instruction.

What it reported doing in 2025

Held Mountain Collegium annual music and dance instruction workshop, June 27 - July 5, 2025. 90 registered participants attended, taught by 18 professional instructors on the campus of Western Carolina University. In addition to the 4 daily class sessions, there was an evening lecture on folk music, a faculty concert open to the public, evening playing sessions and evening Renaissance Dance instruction.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 82% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 20.1%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $98K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.