Opus 1 Chamber Music School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933108158
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7204704018
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Symphony Orchestras
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,234
- Expenses
- $78,067
- Assets
- $19,519
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Matthew Lammers (President)
People named in this filing
- Matthew Lammers (President)
- Marisa Ishikawa (Secretary & Treasurer)
- William Bradley Brager (Board Member)
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
Education
What it reported doing in 2024
The Ambassador Prgram is a youth-to-youth outreach program consisting of a group of 4 high-school students. These students make up a string quartet thatperforms for underserved, young audiences throughout the Houston Community. The string quartet works with guest clinicians to learn how to effectively present their program, both through public speaking & musical performance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.4%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 54% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 71.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 127.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.7% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.