Pocket Opera Players
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364275279
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2014
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014
- Location
- North Bergen, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2018687473
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24,450
- Expenses
- $21,904
- Assets
- $4,997
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- JOHN EATON (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission of the organization is to educate the public about this type of music by performing original work of various composers. Performances of sor juana songs, blind mans cry, greek vision, and the end of it. The majority of the year was spent in meetings with potential donors, eventual productions, or meetings with librettists, stage designers,.
What it reported doing in 2014
October 18th lecture at the university of chicago for the 50th anniversary of the contempo ensemble with the end of it as a part of the lecture.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 7
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.2%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 4
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.4%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -193.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -78% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.2% of revenue deployed · 3.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $773 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2012 to 2014
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.