Seattle Ensign
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461780954
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4258293844
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $61,924
- Expenses
- $57,250
- Assets
- $124,804
- Liabilities
- $26,109
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sharla Dance (President of Youth Choir & Board Members)
- Jennifer Maner (President of Choir)
People named in this filing
- Chris Hall (Chairman of Board)
- Richard Manwaring (Vice Chairman)
- Karen Jarvis (Secretary & 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
Performing inspired sacred & secular music at Benaroya Hall in Seattle
What it reported doing in 2024
Seattle Ensign performed 3 concerts this season at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. It consists of ~150 volunteer performers in the choir and orchestra. All choir and orchestra members are volunteers and are not paid. There are also 2 conductors, one for the choir, one for the orchestra who also volunteer their time.
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 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 and program spending 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: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.6%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 38.5%; rating input score 38
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.18; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.6% of revenue deployed · 38.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.