The Lanier Singers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582100988
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Gainesville, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6786425013
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $67,995
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSH THOMPSON (BOARD PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN LAFORGE (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR)
- JOSH THOMPSON (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- MICHELLE MARTIN (TREASURER)
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
The Lanier Chamber Singers, lnc. is a community chorus that promotes choral singing in Gainesville and Hall County, Georgia. The organization is committed to enhancing the cultural lives of citizens in our area by performing classical and popular standards from the Renaissance through today, including major works with orchestral accompaniment- LCS has a roster of 38 singers that presents four concerts per year. Concert attendance averages approximately 300 people per performance.
What it reported doing in 2025
This program was a collaboration between the lanier chamber singer and the choral music program at chestatee high school in gainesville ga. The program included an artist residency with weekly instruction at chestatee high school over the span of seven weeks, as well as multiple joint rehearsalsbetween the two organizations leading up to the final intergenerational concert.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 50%; rating input score 50; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 185.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: 33% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 8 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.