Vineyard Sound

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205647302
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Vineyard Haven, MA, USA
Phone
8008467686
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Singing, Choral
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$66,051
Expenses
$65,362
Assets
$24,688
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Andrew Lefkowits (President)

People named in this filing

  • Andrew Lefkowits (President)
  • Sam Martin (Treasurer)
  • Ari Wolfe (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

The Vineyard Sound, an all-male a cappella group from Martha's Vineyard, serves a charitable and educational purpose. Beyond entertaining summer visitors, they perform free concerts for non-profits, support organizations like the Windemere Retirement Home and Camp Jabberwocky, and donate profits to island churches and charities, demonstrating their commitment to community benefit. They also foster the musical development of their college-aged singers.

What it reported doing in 2024

The group voluntarily sings a significant number of shows for different retirement homes (e.g. The Edgartown Council on Aging & Up Island Council on Aging), different camps (e.g. Camp Jabberwocky & Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club), different benefits (MV Hospital renaming & MVY Radio anniversary celebration), almost every school on the island (e.g. the Edgartown School & the Oak Bluffs School), and various other island events (e.g. the Tisbury Street Fair & Illumination Night). The group has been invited to perform and lead master classes for different music programs around the island schools and hopes to increase their participation in supporting local music by working with more summer programs and school programs. The group also hopes to get more involved in other forms of community building by using their not-for-profit status to facilitate partnering with more island businesses and not-for-profits.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 25; 25th 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: -32.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.