Overture Band Programs Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800109187
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Stoughton, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6088771313
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $325,285
- Expenses
- $320,922
- Assets
- $180,834
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NADINE KERL (PRESIDENT/TREAS.)
Highest reported compensation
- NADINE KERL (PRESIDENT/TREAS.): $72,755 total reported compensation
- KELLI SELJE (VICE PRES./SECRETARY): $72,149 total reported compensation
- YVONNE SCHWINGE (DIRECTOR): $69,678 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Overture band programs is dedicated to providing instrumental music education and music performance opportunities to students in private and parochial schools and to home schooled students through comprehensive, quality band programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Students who were in 6th grade through 12th grade were eligible to participate in the Wisconsin school music association's district sole & ensemble festival. Fifty-tw0 (52) students from 14 participating schools prepared 57 solos and/or ensembles and performed them for an adjudicator. Each student received a rating, verbal and written comments regarding their performance from the adjudicator. Three students from two schools advanced to and performed at the state level. Solo & ensemble festival encourages students to improve their music skills and to strive to reach a higher level of performance, gaining poise and self-confidence. Overture band programs also offered its more advanced students the opportunity to participate in overture's honor band. Honor band is an extra-curricular activity that provides the students that participate an expanded music repertoire with music that is more challenging (both technically and musically), a larger group band experience, and two performances. Twenty-nine (29) students from twelve schools participated in honor band. Students who participate in honor band share what they learn with their peers in their own (usually smaller) school bands through the leadership and maturity they gain from their experiences in honor band.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 82.3%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 66.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 82.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $264K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.