Northwest Opera in Schools Etcetera
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911249425
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,165
- Expenses
- $82,082
- Assets
- $6,805
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Boyd Schlaefer (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Boyd Schlaefer (Executive Director)
- Rhonda DeAnn Kline (General Director)
- Kimberly Giordano (Director of Community Outreach)
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
Provide educational opera music performances for K-6 grades and assisted living communities. Mission: Northwest Opera in Schools Etcetera NOISE is a non-profit 501 c 3 organization dedicated to sustaining the vitality of opera in Washington State through live on-site educational performances now and for generations to come. Vision: We use our decades of live opera theater experience to provide quality arts education that serves and inspires audiences emerging artists and supporters; knowing the arts are a vital part of wellbeing expression and community. We provide training and professional opportunities for local artists of diverse backgrounds perspectives and ages; realizing the importance of representation to the audiences we serve as well as the need for formerly excluded voices to be heard and celebrated throughout the field of opera. We share the gift of live opera with audiences of all ages; acknowledging our responsibility to engage with and embrace those who are u
What it reported doing in 2025
Performed 51 shows reaching over 21,600 k-6 students in the state of Washington. Also employed 12 young artists from the Seattle area51
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97
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: -18.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.