Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 746057576
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Webster, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5059084110
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,343
- Expenses
- $47,190
- Assets
- $88,696
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Coon (President)
- Paul Rowe (Immediate Past President)
People named in this filing
- Steve Coon (President)
- Paul Rowe (Immediate Past President)
- John Watkins (Secretary)
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
Perpetuate the American Art Form of Barbershop Quartet Singing and Chorus Singing by learning, practicing, perfecting, demonstrating and teaching the skills involved in order to engender its appreciation. Ages of our participants range from young adults to seniors.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our Next Generation Barbershop programs implement the part of our Mission to "support vocal music education with youth programs". Our programs throughout the year included: A) Our Next Generation Barbershop Quartet Contest was held across the Houston region, where prizes were awarded. Entries were received from Alief ISD, Alvin ISD, Clear Creek ISD, Fort Bend ISD, Humble ISD and Montgomery ISD. These entries spanned Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris and Montgomery counties. Awards to winners and their schools totaled $2,350. B) The chorus participated in Heights Kids Day of Music in central Houston, providing a free chorus performance, and a table to encourage youth and parents to try singing a simple song with our members. Estimated 200 youth and adults in the chorus performance audience, and 100 youth and adults served at our table. C) The chorus supported school music education through youth singing events and joint performances with middle and high school choir programs. C.1) The chorus conducted singing workshops for Crockett Middle School in Richmond TX (Fort Bend County). Estimated 120 boys and girls participated. C.2) The chorus performed with the La Porte ISD choirs during their Men's Night Out. Over 150 youth were involved. Our $312 expense was for music purchased and donated to the La Porte High School Music Department. The choirs performed this music with the Tidelanders in a large combined chorus. C.3) Over 350 youth were involved at Humble ISD (south) Men's Night Out at Summer Creek High School, Houston, Texas, where we performed for the students and parents, and we sang with all of the students. There was $0 expense and the Summer Creek High School Choir Booster Club donated $150 to the Houston Tidelanders. C.4) The Tidelanders chorus performed in our 11th annual joint holiday concert at Needville high school, concluding with a combined choir including an estimated 80 students. The Tidelanders received a performance fee of $1400 as part of profit sharing with Needville HS.
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 81% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.6%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 67.1%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; 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: 22.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.6% of revenue deployed · 67.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.