Summerfest Concerts And-or Recordings Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431574204
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8165100978
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,554
- Expenses
- $75,937
- Assets
- $20,322
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA BROWAR (PRESIDENT)
- DON SHANKS (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- JANE CARL (ARTISTIC ADVISOR AND MUSICIAN)
- ALEXANDER EAST (ARTISTIC ADVISOR AND MUSICIAN)
- Evan Halloin (Artistic Advisor and Musician)
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
Summerfest, a professional chamber music ensemble, enriches the cultural life of Kansas city through the performance of a variety of music in a setting that fosters interaction between musicians and audience.
What it reported doing in 2025
Summerfest concerts are held weekends in july. An average of over 200 people attend each of these concrts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd 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 · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.