Vancouver Master Chorale

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237451176
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Vancouver, WA, USA
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$82,721
Expenses
$76,586
Assets
$73,612

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Robin Patton (President)
  • Dennis Haberkamp (Vice President)
  • Doug Friend (President Former)

People named in this filing

  • Jana Hart (Creative Director Former)
  • Philip Denton (Artistic Director)
  • Robin Patton (President)

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

Vancouver Master Chorale VMC is an all-volunteer choir founded in 1949 that presents multiple choral concerts each year in Vancouver and throughout Southwest Washington. The organization brings together more than 100 singers of all ages to perform significant sacred and secular choral works. Its purpose is to promote the appreciation and enjoyment of choral music and to inspire and uplift audiences through quality performances of artistic excellence.

What it reported doing in 2024

The organization presented two performances of From Haydn to Basin Street reaching approximately 400 people. This concert weekend paired Haydns Lord Nelson Mass a major work of the classical sacred repertoire with Will Todds Mass in Blue a contemporary setting of the Mass text shaped by jazz and blues influences. The result was a bold and engaging program that highlighted both the depth of the choral tradition and its continued evolution in modern forms. The concert also featured a solo selection performed by the winner of the organizations youth vocal scholarship competition giving a promising young singer the opportunity to appear before a public audience in the context of a major concert program. As one of the organizations first major presentations under new director Philip Denton the weekend reflected both artistic continuity and a strong beginning to a new chapter in the choirs leadership.

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 82% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72

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: 7.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -27.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.6% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $55K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.