Verdi Chorus Co Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
954720794
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Phone
3106257735
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Opera

Reported finances

Revenue
$175,907
Expenses
$137,890
Assets
$219,198
Liabilities
$26

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Frank Strauss (President & CEO)
  • Dina Spevack (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Frank Strauss (President & CEO)
  • Dina Spevack (Vice President)
  • Debra Dysart (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Verdi Chorus(Verdi)presents opera choruses in concerts. Verdi promotes andeducates opera music, helps aspiring opera singers by providing opportunities toperform in front of audience and also provides opportunities for music student tofurther their studies.

What it reported doing in 2025

Verdi Chorus promotes and educates opera music, helps aspiring opera singers byproviding opportunities to perform in front of an audience and also provide fundsfor music student to further their studies.

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
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.6%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84

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: 21.6%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65.6% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $115K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.