Sweet Adelines International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510170354
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lacey, WA, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,553
- Expenses
- $91,980
- Assets
- $205,605
- Liabilities
- $13,390
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- SALLY RYERSON (TEAM COORDINATOR)
- STEPAHNIE POTTER (COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR)
- DIANA JORDAN (MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR)
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
We are a region of Sweet Adelines International Our primary purpose is to educate our members and communities in the art of a cappella barbershop singing
What it reported doing in 2025
Development of strategic planning curriculum and train the trainer event for approximately 10 facilitators
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 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
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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.3%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 25.9%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.24; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.3% of revenue deployed · 25.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 32/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.