Oratorio Society of Minnesota
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363456055
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Shoreview, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512380502
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,259
- Expenses
- $151,935
- Assets
- $77,061
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karen Jollie (Director and President)
- Barry Lau (Director and Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Karen Jollie (Director and President)
- Barry Lau (Director and Vice-President)
- Mark Gustafson (Director and Treasurer)
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
Performance and Promotion of Choral Music
What it reported doing in 2024
A Summer Chorus concert was performed on August 3, 2024 to promote life-long singing. 115 singers of all ages joined the chorus without audition, for 3 weeks of rehearsals and performance of The Artistry of Genius: A Landmark Revival of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Masterworks for Chorus and Orchestra. Three restored works were performed, including Kubla Khan, Meg Blane, and The Atonement. Some of these works had not been performed since the early 1900s. Two-time Grammy winner Dashon Burton and other professional soloists and a 45-piece orchestra performed with the chorus. Audience was over 300 people. A second Summer Chorus concert was performed during the same fiscal year on July 26, 2025. 150 singers joined the chorus without audition, for 3 weeks of rehearsals and performance of Regards to Broadway: The Music of Bernstein and Sondheim. A professional pit band and professional soloists joined the chorus to perform music from musicals by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim including West Side Story, On the Town, Sweeney Todd, Candide, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park With George, and others. Audience was 818 people.
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 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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $152K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.