Richardson Area Orchestra Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237114602
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Richardson, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2143406778
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,121
- Expenses
- $93,684
- Assets
- $57,126
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Allyson Vaughn (President)
- Sharon Braxton (Vice President)
- Anlly Mejia (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Allyson Vaughn (President)
- Heather Schmidt (Treasurer)
- Sharon Braxton (Vice President)
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
The Richardson Area Orchestra Club (Club) is a parent led organization whosegoal is to cultivate growth of participating students in their appreciation for and performance of orchestral music, as individuals and with a group, before a variety of audiences. The Club has approximately 450 students in the program ranging from grades 6 through 12. These students attend the following public schools, all of which are part of the Richardson, Texas Independent School District: Richardson High School, Westwood Junior High School, Richardson West Junior High School and associated Elementary schools. While the Club serves the orchestra students of the public school district, it is independent of the school district and receives no public funding. It operates as a booster club in compliance with guidelines issued by the University Interscholastic League and Richardson Independent School District (RISD).
What it reported doing in 2025
The Club pursues student musical development in several ways. The Club offersmusic tutors to students at set by RISD, and hires hiring music professionals to provide group clinics to all students several times each year. The Club offers financial aid to students who are unable to afford private lessons. The Club offers large orchestral instruments (i.e., cello and bass)for student use, because the purchase of such instruments by families is expensive in comparison to the smaller instruments. The Club maintains a uniform closet used to fit students for concerts, facilitates an annual field trip to visit the music school of a state university, supports the spring and fall orchestra concerts at each participating school, supports the students participation in an annual district-wide music festival and assists the students in preparing for University Interscholastic League competitions. The Club also supports the district wide string fling in which all 450 orchestra students play simultaneously for the community at large.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $87K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.