Vermont Choral Union

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452699887
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Essex Junction, VT, USA
Phone
8026837533
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Singing, Choral

Reported finances

Revenue
$110,353
Expenses
$99,566
Assets
$86,324

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jim Bentledge (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jim Bentledge (President)
  • Adam Grundt (Treasurer)
  • Eric Milnes (Music Director)

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

The Vermont Choral Union is a 501C3 organization promoting choral excellence through community performance.

What it reported doing in 2025

Choral Performances. We sold 1883 seats total over the entire FY. Expenses include all musician fees and rehearsal space fees. Our organization's service is aimed at performance, mainly, and so this is our sole accomplishment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96

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: 9.8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 54.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.