Saint Louis String Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320589740
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Maplewood, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3143252294
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $95,748
- Expenses
- $106,177
- Assets
- $19,468
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alyssa Avery (Executive Director)
- Brandy Greiner (President)
People named in this filing
- Alyssa Avery (Executive Director)
- Sarah Velasquez (Financial Manager and Administrator)
- Ranya Iqbal (Communications and Studio Coordinator)
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
Saint Louis String Collective is a music education organization. The organization promotes creative, multi-genre string instrument playing through educational programming and performance opportunities. We believe that high quality, diverse music education should be available to people of all ages, abilities and incomes. We believe that supporting the arts is essential to the health and well-being of our community. We believe that mastering techniques and styles outside of the traditional classical pedagogy, such as developing improvisational skills and learning by ear develops well-rounded musicianship. We believe that learning a variety of musical styles and traditions cultivates compassion and curiosity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Saint Louis String Collective coaches a semester-long string ensemble comprised of adult amateur players. Participants learn to play and arrange music in a group setting, focusing on non-classical styles such as American fiddle styles, rock, jazz, and folk music from around the world. Participants develop important musical skills including learning songs by ear, improvising, accompanying others, and applying music theory in creative ways. The ensemble encourages collaboration, creativity, and musical exploration in a supportive environment.
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
REVIEW - 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: 10
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.9%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 9
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.9% of revenue deployed · 8.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.