San Diego Chorus Chapter of Sweet Adelines International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 956095457
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6197965162
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,999
- Expenses
- $92,255
- Assets
- $113,816
- Liabilities
- $27,028
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Pamela Murray (Team Leader)
- Andrea Chertkow (Secretary)
- Diane Thornewell (Finance Manager)
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
Educate, perform and compete to advance and preserve barbershop singing.
What it reported doing in 2024
Competition - We placed 11th in the world at our regional contest in spring 2023. This qualified us to compete at the international level in the fall of 2024. Competing requires over a year of preparation. We performed for evaluation in the spring of 2024, with many new members on stage with us. We traveled to Kansas City, MO and placed 7th in the world in October 2024. As we prepared for these contests, we continued to attract guests, of whom many joined the chorus and competed with us in their first year of membership.
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 85% 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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 83
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: -2.5%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.23; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $77K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- 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 40/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.