Sacramento Master Singers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942850445
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Visual Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $148,347
- Expenses
- $176,596
- Assets
- $186,601
- Liabilities
- $5,463
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laura Lofgren (President)
- Chris Dainard (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Caroline Bamforth (Treasurer)
- Laura Lofgren (President)
- Ian Tillman (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 provide audiences with world-class concerts that engage and inspire to offer and opportunity to accomplished choral singers for musical growth personal fulfillment and fellowship and to ensure the advancement of the choral arts through outreach activities for youth.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the FY 2024-25 Sacramento Master Singers presented several concerts including: A Master Singers Christmas during the holiday season attended by 1,270 audience members; one concert of Christmas music called Jingle All the Way at McClatchy High School attended by 193 individuals: in March they presented Romantasy! attended by 394 individuals; and in May they presented Where the Light Begins attended by 395 individuals. In June and July 24 members of the Sacramento Master Singers embarked on a tour of Wales and England and gave 4 concerts while on the tour.
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
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
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: -19%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.3% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $141K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.