Tonality
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813346665
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9103587130
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $656,809
- Expenses
- $592,139
- Assets
- $204,785
- Liabilities
- $121,915
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ALEXANDER BLAKE (ED/Artistic Dir): $127,112 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tonality was created to produce choral concerts that focus on issues rarely presented in choral music. Concerts themes have included gun violence, homelessness, refugees, climate change, mental health, womens rights, and exercising democratic rights.
What it reported doing in 2024
JUNE 21, 2025: Ruth Naomi Floyd Collaboration on 'Are we yet somehow alive?' MAY 24, 2025: Put Your Guns Down - The Wallis, Beverly Hills, CA MAY 22, 2025: Mancini at 100 Concert: Scott Dunn Orchestra The Wallis, Beverly Hills, CAMAY 8,2025: Ricky Kej Recording of "Gandhi Mantras of Compassion"APRIL 1, 2025: Carla Patullo RecordingMARCH 22, 2025: HRC Performance with David ArchuletaMARCH 18, 2025: Corvallis Showcase The Wallis, Beverly Hills, CAFEBRUARY 15, 2025: At War With Ourselves - 400 Years of You - The Wallis, Beverly Hills, CA JANUARY 20, 2025: America Will Be - Wake Forest University, NC JANUARY 18, 2025: America Will Be - Duke University, NC NOVEMBER 16, 2024: HomeCare: A Concert on Climate Change - Caltech, Pasadena, CA OCTOBER 2, 2024: You Are Not Alone - Morrison Center, Boise, ID SEPTEMBER 29, 2024: Randy Newmans FAUST: The Concert - The Soraya, Northridge, CA SEPTEMBER 28, 2024: Randy Newmans FAUST: The Concert - The Soraya, Northridge, CA SEPTEMBER 13, 2024: America Will Be - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at Illinois, IL JULY 23, 2024: America Will Be - Iowa Choral Directors Association Summer Symposium, IA
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.8%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.8% of revenue deployed · 79.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $471K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.