Pittsburgh School for the Choral Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452939374
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $170,251
- Expenses
- $153,849
- Assets
- $64,109
- Liabilities
- $22,985
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- Mariana Whitmer (Board Chair)
- Craig Denison (Board Vice Chair)
- Tim Nye (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
The Pittsburgh Girls Choir is dedicated to artistic excellence and performance through an outstanding music education program. We embrace girls of all races ethnicities and economic backgrounds in our supportive community.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.3%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 61.8%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.6%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.36; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.3% of revenue deployed · 61.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.