Oahu Choral Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990321933
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8087799107
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $109,903
- Expenses
- $109,030
- Assets
- $56,444
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- KeAli'i Becera (Board Chair)
- Sally Hattemer (Treasurer)
- Phil Verhoef (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
Provide choral concerts and symphony chorus concerts
What it reported doing in 2024
We held a concert on May 4, 2025 "Malama Ika 'Aina" (caring for the earth) with professional musicians featuring contemporary composers at Kawaiaha'o Church.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% 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
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: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.8%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 29%; rating input score 29
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 46.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.8% of revenue deployed · 29% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.