Upper Arlington Orchestra Parents Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311465363
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Upper Arlington, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6144875200
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,433
- Expenses
- $60,074
- Assets
- $21,553
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SOOZI HAMILTON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SOOZI HAMILTON (PRESIDENT)
- COURTNEY PEARSON (VICE PRES/SE)
- ARLENE SWANSON (TREASURER)
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
Support the upper arlington school system orchestras.
What it reported doing in 2024
Orchestra kick-off in august for uniform fittings, volunteer sign-up and other orchestra related activities for the upcoming school year. Multiple uahs students participated in the vivo music festival student workshop with world class musicians. Ten hs musicians participated in the osu high school string workshop in october uahs spooktacular concert in october. Jones ms veteran's day performance in november. Fourteen symphony & concert orchestra students were selected to be in the omea south central regional orchestra uahs winter philharmonic with hired professional musicians on winds, percussion and brass to accompany each orchestra over 10 members of the jones and hastings orchestras participated in the osta district xv middle school honors orchestra with guest conductor dr. Heather lofdahl. Hastings ms orchestra concert in december. Jones ms orchestra concert in december. Uahs orchestra mid-term ensemble performances in december facilitated students performing in omea solo & ensemble in january. Provided music for the senior dinner (stage ua) prior to their viewing of the school musical in february provided the pit musicians for the school musical the sound of music in february. March concert with all five uahs orchestras and 8th grade orchestras from jones & hastings. Three of the seven uahs orchestras earned superior ratings and two earned excellent ratings at the central Ohio string festival which was hosted by upper arlington and provided opportunities for twenty other orchestras to perform including two from jones middle school and one from hastings middle school. Hosted a middle school solo and ensemble event for jones and hastings orchestra students. Over 90 students traveled to walt disney world to participate in a performance at disney springs and a workshop at disneys imagination campus. Provided music for the senior honors night @ uahs in may. Jones middle school spring concert in may. Hastings middle school spring concert in may featuring guest artist brad phillips from the university of Michigan uahs spring concert honoring 37 graduating seniors. All students received plaques, music cords and personally signed cards by all directors. Three buses of middle school orchestra students traveled to kings island in may to celebrate a successful year
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.