Tredyffrin Easttown Music Parents Organization Tempo
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237291349
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Southeastern, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6102091640
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parent/Teacher Group
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $455,227
- Expenses
- $444,579
- Assets
- $498,803
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christina Arnault (President)
- Stephanie Crill (Co-President, Fundraising)
People named in this filing
- Christina Arnault (President)
- Stephanie Crill (Co-President, Fundraising)
- James Greger (VP of Finance)
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
TEMPO's mission is to support and fund music programs, activities, scholarships and trips for Tredyffrin Easttown School District students, fostering musical growth and opportunities to encourage and challenge students musically and to add to the enjoyment of the music program. TEMPO encourages and supports participation in competitions, parades, and trips for CHS music and theater groups. TEMPO awards scholarships to seniors pursuing an interest in music at the college level.
What it reported doing in 2024
Support for Conestoga High School Music Department: the marching band with securing music rights, providing equipment, and events as well as for other speical events sponsored by the music department including special concerts and meet and greet with incoming students. This also includes support of the drum majors to attend band leadership camp.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.2%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.2% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $442K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.