Sweet Adelines International - Spirit of Syracuse
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 166052119
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Baldwinsville, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3155729473
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,777
- Expenses
- $65,891
- Assets
- $56,593
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- JANET HARRISON (TEAM LEADER)
- KATHRYN Z STORRINGS (FINANCE OFFICER)
- ALICIA CARON (MUSICAL CO-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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Music & education for members
What it reported doing in 2025
Coaching and education for members
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 97% 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 and program spending has grown recently. 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: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.5%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 34.4%; rating input score 34
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.5% of revenue deployed · 34.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.