Mountain Empire Childrens Choral Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581748025
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bristol, TN, USA
- Phone
- 4232780813
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $148,626
- Expenses
- $98,193
- Assets
- $129,541
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
People named in this filing
- Jane Morison (Artistic Director)
- Elizabeth DeLong (Administrator)
- Shawn Howell (Accompanist)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Regional (northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia) children's choirs for grades 1-12
What it reported doing in 2024
Our organization continued its regular season of activities with increased enrollment as well as increased corporate and private donor support. During the first semester, we presented two holiday concerts of our own as well as other performances in partnership with the VA hospital, the Appalachian Men's Ensemble, the Symphony of the Mountains, and the Biltmore Estate. In the spring, our high school singers performed in two cabaret shows and participated in two choral festivals in partnership with East Tennessee State University and Milligan University. Our organization also presented two end-of-semester concerts and held Awards Days to celebrate all of our singers. Throughout the year, our music reached approximately 5000 individuals, and our singers performed a wide variety of choral music to audience members ranging in age from very young children to elder adults.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.9%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 71.6%; rating input score 72
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: 33.9%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 62.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.9% of revenue deployed · 71.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $70K 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: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.