Swinganova Jazz Ensemble Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 884235728
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2146682411
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,660
- Expenses
- $2,229
- Assets
- $2,992
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Travis Davis (Director, Music and Library)
- Harry Spicer (Director - Personnel)
- Douglas Hires (Director - Tasks and Schedule)
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
To provide a venue and opportunity for musicians to rehearse and perform big band music as a volunteer. To provide entertainment at low or no cost to groups who ordinarily would not have the resources to avail themselves of a large orchestra/band. To preserve and promote the traditions of big band music in our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Performed 47 rehearsals, performed for the Sons of Herman Lodge, and The Branch Connection, which is the Carrollton, Tx Senior Center, Contributed 2100 to the Oak Lawn United Methodist Church. We included high school students in our rehearsals to give experience in playing with a large group.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.