Una Voce Chamber Choir
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831782243
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Bath, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2078441166
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,455
- Expenses
- $33,382
- Assets
- $39,711
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Claire Berkowitz (President)
People named in this filing
- Rowan Etzel (Secretary)
- Robert Gersh (Treasurer)
- Salvatore Guzzardi (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
VISION: Every community, regardless of geography, population, or wealth, has the right to fully experience the breadth and vibrancy of the modern choral tradition, and the fruits of our shared cultural inheritance. MISSION STATEMENT: Una Voce Chamber Choir promotes contemporary choral literature through excellence in performance practice, inventive programming, and innovative collaborations, engaging and fostering new and diverse compositional voices, audiences, and singers.
What it reported doing in 2024
UVCC performed The Birds and The Bees on Friday, June 13, 2025 at 7 pm and again on Sunday, June 15, 2025 at 2 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 1 Middle St, Brunswick ME. The program drew its inspiration from Renaissance madrigals and chansons. Though there were a few "modern Madrigals" in the program, each selection featured some element of madrigalism, text painting, onomatopoeia, imitation, chromaticism, irregular phrasing and thinly veiled eroticism. Largely a cappella, the program alternated between expressions of yearning lyricism and cheeky rhythmic vitality. It included works by Norman Dello Joio, Morton Lauridsen, Georgiann Toole, Hyo-Won Woo, Carol Nicholeris, Joshua Shank, and Christopher Hoh.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.4%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 26.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 60%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.