Springfield Choral Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371263710
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Springfield, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2174158333
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,350
- Expenses
- $130,840
- Assets
- $48,713
- Liabilities
- $15,700
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM KONTIO (PRESIDENT)
- CLAIRE RIBELIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LINDA YOUNKIN (VICE PRESIDENT & CHORUS MANAGER)
People named in this filing
- JACOBSEN WOOLEN (DIRECTOR)
- JIM KONTIO (PRESIDENT)
- CLAIRE RIBELIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
The springfield choral society seeks to create community through harmony, bringing together singers from all backgrounds to prepare and present vibrant performances.
What it reported doing in 2025
In paradisum - provided a choir concert for the communitymessiah - provided a choir concert for the community at the cathedral of the immaculate conception
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 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.5%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 64.8%; rating input score 65
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.32; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 47.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.5% of revenue deployed · 64.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.