Reading Pops Orchestra
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232469343
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Sinking Spring, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4842692681
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,404
- Expenses
- $64,749
- Assets
- $98,641
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jessica Godek (President)
- Michael Slechta (Past President)
People named in this filing
- Jessica Godek (President)
- Michael Slechta (Past President)
- Judith Koch (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote music and the arts in Reading and Berks County through the maintenance the musical arts in Reading and Berks County
What it reported doing in 2024
A "side by side concert" of Berks county high school music students and the Reading Pops Orchestra . This function provides students the opportunity to play along side the Reading Pops Orchestra musicians for a rehearsal and a concert. After the rehearsal with the full orchestra, the various section move to different locations to rehearse individual section music. Various techniques of playing the respective instruments as well as the music for the concert with the student. We them provided some pizza and refreshments for the students and musicians prior to performing the concert in their auditorium for the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.2%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 48.8%; rating input score 49
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.2% of revenue deployed · 48.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2010 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.