Sonnet House Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812109476
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2019
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Greenville, SC, USA
Phone
4048224286
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Support N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$38,270
Expenses
$39,502
Assets
$12,001

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JEFF SANDSTROM (President)

People named in this filing

  • JEFF SANDSTROM (President)
  • ELIZABETH SANDSTROM (Secretary)
  • GREG DOLEZAL (Director)

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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Sonnet house's purpose and mission is to facilitate meaningful worship experiences in christian worship and to mentor worship leaders, with a particular focus on developing and providing education, resources, guidance and training to churches, religious charities, and to individuals serving such entities in the capacity of worship team members.the ultimate goal of sonnet house is to provide traning to worship production teams so that their churches nurture a worship experience that draws individuals closer to god.

What it reported doing in 2019

Sonnet house has a two-pronged approach to pursuing its exempt purposes of enhancing worship experiences in christian worship so as to usher participants into god's presence: (1) to hold on-site training sessions, as invited by churches' leadership, to equip and mentor such churches' production teams; and (2) to hold conferences to which church worship leaders and other church leadership are invited to be trained, equipped and mentored. In futherance of these exempt purposes, the organization intends to produce training videos, printed materials, bolg posts and an online mentoring forum.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.2%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -23.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -33.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $40K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2016 to 2019
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.