Tompkins Orchestra Friends

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462752857
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Katy, TX, USA
Phone
2817049625
Rating
54
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$73,580
Expenses
$65,505
Assets
$46,724
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOSE GUTIERREZ (PRESIDENT)
  • GAURAV GUPTA (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JOSE GUTIERREZ (PRESIDENT)
  • GAURAV GUPTA (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MICHAEL VAN STRIEN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Tompkins Orchestra Programs primary goal is to develop the complete student musician who makes a positive contribution to the musical team concept and seeks to become an effective communicator, problem solver and finally, a productive and responsible citizen.

What it reported doing in 2024

Promote & improve the educational experience, by improving the schools participation in extracurricular activities and providing academic and music scholarships. The booster club enriches over 250 orchestra students and operates solely by volunteers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.

The verdict

MIXED - Most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 51
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 46%; rating input score 46
  • Program expense ratio: 51.7%; rating input score 52
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -13.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 46% of revenue deployed · 51.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 16 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.