New York City Master Chorale Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203554252
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,995
- Expenses
- $126,178
- Assets
- $103,093
- Liabilities
- $44,384
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kieran Walters (Chorus President)
People named in this filing
- David Recca (Artistic Director)
- Sara Yood (Board Chair)
- Emma Dickson (Vice Chair)
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
The mission of the New York City Master Chorale is to connect people through choral music by presenting concerts of the highest caliber inspired by the distinct energy diversity and talent of New York City while fostering artistic collaboration and building an inclusive member community. The Chorale seeks to engage and inspire audiences across all ages and backgrounds through its commitment to innovative programming from a diverse repertoire including newly commissioned works and partnerships with artists and organizations who share the choirs vision as well as bringing music into the community through our outreach and education programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
To connect people through Choral Music by presenting high-quality concerts inspired by the distinct energy diversity and talent of New York City. The Chorale seeks to engage and inspire audiences of all ages backgrounds and musical experience by performing a challenging repertoire or traditional and contemporary works working in collaboration with other artists and organizations who share our vision and bringing our music into the community through our outreach and education programs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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. 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: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.3%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 48.5%; rating input score 48
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: 0.6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.3% of revenue deployed · 48.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.