Sacred Voices

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453183874
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
7205834828
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$64,243
Expenses
$66,915
Assets
$25,753
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Astin Lopez (Co-Executive Director)
  • Briannah Hill (Co-Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Astin Lopez (Co-Executive Director)
  • Briannah Hill (Co-Executive Director)
  • Sarita Grant (Event Host, Board of Directors Member)

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

Sacred Voices empowers BIPOC youth to find their voice, embrace their culture, become community leaders, and promote artistic expression in the Denver metro area.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sacred Voices LIVE!: Sacred Voices hosts an open mic night every second Friday of the month. This event brought in 247 people in person in 2025. There were countless more online who tuned in either live or afterwards. Performers were local artists presenting poetry and music. 19 Performers were hired and billed as "featured performers" to drive up engagement.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 79% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 13
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 13.4%; rating input score 13
  • Program expense ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 13

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.2%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 42.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -20.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 13.4% of revenue deployed · 12.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.