Sanderson Music Boosters

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510197081
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Raleigh, NC, USA
Phone
9198814800
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$92,103
Expenses
$154,090
Assets
$100,459
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

  • RACHEL GORRELL (PRESIDENT)
  • MAGGIE HANDEST (PRESIDENT ELECT)

People named in this filing

  • RACHEL GORRELL (PRESIDENT)
  • MAGGIE HANDEST (PRESIDENT ELECT)
  • LISA HARPE (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The sanderson band boosters, inc., operates to support the education of young people at sanderson high school through musical and auxiliary performance. The sanderson band boosters, inc., is a not-for-profit organization receiving no funding from wake county schools or sanderson high school; therefore, the organization raises its own funds to cover normal operating cost and capital needs.

What it reported doing in 2025

Booster organization provides funding and volunteer resources for the band participation in marching and concert competitions, football half-time performances, parades, winterguard competitions and percussion ensemble competitions.

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 98% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -67.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $154K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.