Society for Preservation & Encourmt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 356060520
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Greenwood, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3179797302
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,765
- Expenses
- $52,535
- Assets
- $100,757
- 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
- Don Brown (President)
- Derek Bailer (Immediate Past President)
People named in this filing
- Don Brown (President)
- Paul Gabriel (Secretary)
- Brent Lollar (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
Music performance and music education
What it reported doing in 2025
MUSIC EDUCATION: Provided weekly training of singers, in group and one-on-one sessions, in person, 70 members, all sessions open to the public.
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 94% 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: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.7%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 29.9%; rating input score 30
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.7% of revenue deployed · 29.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 31/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.