Seattle Collaborative Orchestra

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462340197
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Symphony Orchestras

Reported finances

Revenue
$133,350
Expenses
$131,078
Assets
$13,808
Liabilities
$10,000

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SARAH MICHAEL (BOARD PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • SARAH MICHAEL (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • CHRISTINA WRIGHT (BOARD SECRETARY)
  • RUSSELL BROWNE (BOARD TREASURER)

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

Advancing Music Education.

What it reported doing in 2025

SCORE Program: Free Individual music lessons for grade to middle school children from financial hardship households. Lessons provided by SCO by professional music teachers to benefit the children in the program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 77% 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

MIXED - 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: 21
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 21.5%; rating input score 21
  • Program expense ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 22

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.72; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.5%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 21.5% of revenue deployed · 21.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 21/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.