Saratoga Chamber Orchestra
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261984716
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Langley, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3606794003
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Symphony Orchestras
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $195,024
- Expenses
- $197,166
- Assets
- $32,816
- Liabilities
- $600
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERICA MONTGOMERY (PRESIDENT)
- DEBRA RICHARDSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LARRY HEIDEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ERICA MONTGOMERY (PRESIDENT)
- DEBRA RICHARDSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LARRY HEIDEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
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
Musical education and performances
What it reported doing in 2025
Orchestra concerts, smaller ensemble performances, rehearsals and auditions. Emphasis on finding & training local musicians
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.