Orpheus Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920166540
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Juneau, AK, USA
- Phone
- 5025530822
- Rating
- 50
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Performing Arts Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,735
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $63,341
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elena Levi (President)
- Christine Wick (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Elena Levi (President)
- Christine Wick (Vice President)
- Emily Kane (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To entertain, to expand the awareness and knowledge of audiences, by producing high quality performances of a wide variety of operas and concerts, including creating new works for the repertoire and showcasing medieval through early baroque music.
What it reported doing in 2025
Orpheus Project hosted a reading session with the local wind ensemble in which local composers got to have their new compositions played and then critiqued by players and other composers. 4 Local composers participated and 30 local wind ensemble members played.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 38%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 38% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 6 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.