Resounding Voices
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844696992
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Rochester, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5072188376
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,469
- Expenses
- $40,577
- Assets
- $78,315
- Liabilities
- $3,946
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- Joseph Lobl (Chair and Director)
- Ruth Kraft (Vice Chair and Director)
- Ann Teske (Secretary and 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Resounding Voices celebrates the full potential of people living with dementia through music, fellowship, and education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Resounding Voices gathers together people living with dementia, their care partners, and community volunteers for weekly fellowship and choir rehearsals, followed by public concerts, sing-alongs, and performances in community events. In 2025, 18 people living with dementia experienced the life-affirming joy of making music in a caring and judgment-free environment. 21 care partners shared a purposeful activity with the person in their life who is living with dementia and connected with other care partners for mutual support and encouragement. 45 community volunteers received training that enabled them to most effectively engage with and support the choir members living with dementia while they all sang together. Hundreds of people who attended our 2 concerts, holiday sing-along, and 3 public performances enjoyed our music while observing that people living with dementia can still learn music and play a meaningful role in our community. In addition to support in the form of cash donations, we received in-kind gifts of space for our rehearsals and concerts and part of a professional musician's fees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.4%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.93; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.4% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.