Oak Park Concert Chorale Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363137689
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Oak Park, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7088482130
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $22,310
- Expenses
- $32,051
- Assets
- $20,481
- Liabilities
- $1,950
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Boyle (Board President)
- Nathan Gibes (Board Vice President)
People named in this filing
- John Boyle (Board President)
- Nathan Gibes (Board Vice President)
- Hannah Kennedy (Board Secretary)
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
Fostering appreciating of quality choral music through affordable concert tickets, promoting cultural enrichment in our region, supporting efforts in the broad field of music education and premiering works by local composers. We are ensuring a more widely representative canon of composers and works. Going into the 2025-26 season, we have been focusing on expanding our mission by including joint performances with area ensembles and exploring the many ways in which the power of music may lead to a greater sense of community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fall Christmas concert Nov 24, 2024 A Feast of Carols: A Festive Concert in Honor of Paul Lindblad at St John Lutheran Church in Forest Park. Premiered 4 songs. Three by local composers (Schalk, deceased; Lindblad and Hahn) and one from a London composer (Ayers). Paid commission to 2 composers. Had organ accompanist who also had 2 interlude solos. Expenses include music, online and print advertising announcing new Artistic Director Paul Laprade and new Conductor Emeritus Paul Lindblad and our Fall concert, design and printing of posters and program booklet, postage for mass postcard mailing announcing concert, rehearsal rental, recording engineer. 195 heard the concert: 164 patrons attended concert, plus 31 singers, artists, volunteers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.9%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 40.3%; rating input score 40
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -43.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.9% of revenue deployed · 40.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.