San Francisco Choral Artists
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942936962
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4154948149
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,184
- Expenses
- $113,263
- Assets
- $142,224
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carl Boe (President)
People named in this filing
- Carl Boe (President)
- Elizabeth Nixon (Secretary)
- Ann McCown (Board 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Performances of classical and contemporary choral works.
What it reported doing in 2024
San Francisco Choral Artists delights audiences with innovative programming and stunning choral performances. Specializing in new music and works of living composers, it presents both premieres and masterpieces of the last 600 years.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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
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 the available information about grant readiness state registration leaves an important question unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
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: 1.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.3% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $107K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.