Segundo Barrio Childrens Chorus

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
881608712
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
2815423500
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Performing Arts Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$523,561
Expenses
$365,369
Assets
$195,763
Liabilities
$6,597

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JORGE GARZA (President)

People named in this filing

  • JORGE GARZA (President)
  • ALEX DE AGUIAR REUTER (Secretary)
  • BLANCA LYDIA GARZA (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

SBCC transforms the lives of children ages 4-14 through tuition-free, bilingual, music-education, and performance opportunities which engage residents, build communities, and celebrate the rich cultural identity of Segundo Barrio in Houston.

What it reported doing in 2025

Segundo Barrio Children's Chorus (SBCC) targets children from some of the most underserved neighborhoods in Houston's East End, offering high quality musical instruction and bi-lingual performance opportunities based on music from the folk, classical, and popular traditions, for students ages 4-14. Our choral and instrumental training underscores our mission pillars - ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE, CULTURAL PRESERVATION & CREATIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT - all aimed at keeping children off the streets and engaged in the arts, while also reducing drop-out rates and increasing overall academic-outcomes.

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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 6
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64.2%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 92%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: $90.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 30.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 35% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 41.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 73.8% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 64.2% of revenue deployed · 92% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $336K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.