The Orchestra of Southern Utah
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742543392
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cedar City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 4355868442
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,743
- Expenses
- $112,059
- Assets
- $195,239
- Liabilities
- $1,326
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HAROLD SHIRLEY (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- SUZANNE TEGLAND (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HAROLD SHIRLEY (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- LEAH BROWN (BOARD SECRETARY)
- DIANE SHIRLEY (BOARD 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 orchestra of southern Utah is a volunteer community orchestra that strives to enrich, educate, and inspire local musicians--including high school and university music students--as well as the community by performing a series of annual concerts. The orchestra sponsors a variety of music-related programs within the community. Through its website and podcasts, it not only influences the local community, but also reaches an international audience.
What it reported doing in 2025
The opening concert, stage meets the silver screen in october 2025, sold 687 tickets. That's the highest number of tickets sold for a season opening concert in the history of the orchestra of southern Utah. The rock gold concert drew an audience of over 900, accompanied by applause, whistles and cheers throughout the concert.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
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: -6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.74; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.