Te Deum Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263397045
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8168060338
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,376
- Expenses
- $156,448
- Assets
- $100,323
- Liabilities
- $50,409
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Matthew Shepard (Executive and Artistic Director)
- Jessica Best (Chair)
- Kirk Isenhour (Vice Chair)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to perform a diverse sacred choral repertoire in a uniquely relevant context, to create a musically inspiring, spiritually stirring experience.
What it reported doing in 2024
Te Deum's 17th season marked a transformative period of growth for the ensemble, reflecting both artistic and organizational strides. For the first time, Te Deum instituted a pay structure for ensemble members, a milestone that affirms the value of the singers' contributions and strengthens Te Deum's professional identity. We expanded our repertoire, showcasing a broader range of styles while highlighting American composers, many of whom are local and actively engaged with choral arts. These developments contributed to enhanced audience engagement, with nearly 2,000 community members attending performances and connecting with Te Deum's mission to perform a diverse sacred choral repertoire in a uniquely relevant context, to create a musically inspiring, spiritually stirring experience. We also achieved all the priorities outlined in the first year of our strategic plan, which guides Te Deum through the 2034-2035 season. Those priorities included paying all singers in the ensemble, formalizing strategic relationships with host venues and presenting organizations across Kansas City, commissioning new music, expanding the roles and wages of administrative staff, and increasing revenue by 15%. Collectively, these achievements signal a promising trajectory for Te Deum's continued evolution and impact.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.5%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 62.6%; rating input score 63
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.5% of revenue deployed · 62.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $98K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.