The Norfolk Street Choir Project
Legal name: The Norfolk Street Choir Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851306944
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Norfolk, VA, United States
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,614
- Expenses
- $140,212
- Assets
- $46,469
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie Van Leeuwen (Executive Director key employee)
People named in this filing
- Stephanie Van Leeuwen (Executive Director key employee)
- Robert Shoup (Artistic Director key employee)
- Richard Voter (Board 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
The Norfolk Street Choir Project builds community through music, connecting neighbors experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity with resources, services, and a supportive singing community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Critical Services Program: Free breakfast and shower trailer access hot nutritious meals to approximately 90 to 110 individuals weekly hot showers to approximately 15 to 20 individuals weekly mail services access to other agencies including those offering healthcare housing clothing employment etc. services. Critical support to those affected by homelessness
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 70.4%; rating input score 70
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: -15.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 43.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 70.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.