Vallejo Choral Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800098806
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Vallejo, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7076536827
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,990
- Expenses
- $54,834
- Assets
- $57,898
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laura Pyles (President)
- Rebecca Gulick (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Laura Pyles (President)
- Rebecca Gulick (Vice-President)
- Megan Preovolos (Secretary)
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
Vallejo Choral Society is a non-profit performing arts organization whose mission is to foster a vibrant, diverse, and interactive choral community, educate our singers and audiences, and extend our reach to youth through our Student Scholarships and Campanelli Youth Chorus. Vallejo Choral Society produces outstanding concerts and gives its singers enriching opportunities to perform choral masterpieces, and in tough times, VCS keeps its extended choral community united, inspired, singing, and learning through innovative programming.
What it reported doing in 2024
For its 107th season, Vallejo Choral Society presented two, December concerts featuring Vivaldi Magnificat and Trumbore Magnificat. Additionally, VCS performed a Christmas concert for the Mare Island Naval Museum, also in December. In March 2025, VCS held a successful Spring Gala with choral works based on themes about the nature of love, including works by Florence Price, Carlos Guastavino, and Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzer. To complete the season, the 45-member Choral Society produced two performances anchored with Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, with chamber orchestra and renowned guest soloists, presented at St. Pauls in Episcopal Church Benicia and the Springbrook Masonic Temple in Vallejo. Concert attendance for each performance described is about 100 audience guests. VCS joined two other Bay Area choruses under the direction of Eric Choate to reprise the Dona Nobis Pacem at a Candlelight concert in San Francisco, followed by a larger collaboration with full orchestra performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City. VCS also continued growing its youth chorus, Campanelli Children's Choir, in association with Greater Vallejo Recreation District. We had a total of 9 students over two semesters.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.8%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 62.7%; rating input score 63
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: 5.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 52.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.8% of revenue deployed · 62.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.