The Alabama Choir School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 631087194
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2052000378
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,249
- Expenses
- $141,782
- Assets
- $128,375
- Liabilities
- $7,040
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cissy Dover-Hill (President)
People named in this filing
- Leah Durham (Director)
- Sarah Vander Wal (Executive Dir.)
- Claire Tisdal (Secretary)
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
To provide the highest standard of performance, choral repertory and music education for students of all ages.
What it reported doing in 2024
Choir school for 100 children
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.7%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 43.6%; rating input score 44
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.8%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.7% of revenue deployed · 43.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.