Uc Alumni Chorus Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943083717
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5108988241
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,335
- Expenses
- $53,259
- Assets
- $43,996
- Liabilities
- $810
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- John Ford (Chairman)
- Ken McCroskey Wait (Board Member)
- Donna Hendrix (Board Member)
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 UC Alumni Chorus is a high-quality performing chorus representing the University of California at Berkeley Cal community. We are committed to supporting the enjoyment of choral singing after undergraduate life through education, rehearsal, and performance of challenging choral music.
What it reported doing in 2024
UC Alumni Chorus (UCAC) is a thriving auditioned volunteer concert choir, composed of 75-100 alumni of the University of California, Berkeley and other UC campuses, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, and other members of the Berkeley community, of all ages from 20-something to 80-something and from all walks of life. At weekly rehearsals, twice-yearly retreats, and at least two concerts annually, UCACs members enjoy learning and performing challenging music at a high level of quality, whether their undergraduate days ended last year, last century, or anytime in between. As a member of and significant contributor to UC Choral Ensembles (UCCE), UC Berkeleys organization for extracurricular vocal music groups, which offers significant leadership opportunities to Cal student singers, as well as an inclusive space for music-making and belonging for hundreds of Cal students and alumni, and as a chapter of the California Alumni Association, UCAC is committed to providing musical and financial support to UCCE and its student members, and regularly invites members of the student choirs to join us for major works performances. UCAC performs a wide variety of music; its primary fall and spring concerts in Berkeley are open to the public and typically attended by 300-500 people each. In fiscal year 2024-2025, UCACs fall concert program consisted of Antonin Dvoraks Stabat Mater and a set of Czech folk songs, and the spring concert program consisted of many different classical choral works accompanied by organ and brass instruments, including Rutters Gloria and Waltons Coronation Te Deum. UCAC also collaborated with other local ensembles in a December holiday concert at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension in Oakland, performing folk and popular music and holiday classics.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 88
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: 2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.7% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.