Voices Chorale Nj
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831053122
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Hopewell, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6092131229
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,449
- Expenses
- $56,189
- Assets
- $9,205
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jane Read (President)
- Robert Kull (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jane Read (President)
- Robert Kull (Vice President)
- Robert A Wiedemann (Treasurer)
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
Voices Chorale NJ a NJ Nonprofit Corporation's mission is to deepen the public appreciation of vocal music by performing outstanding choral music at a high artistic level, by providing education programs for children, young musicians, and audiences, and by supporting the creation of new choral works.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the 2024-2025 season, VCNJ performed three major works: our December concert featured the popular "Gloria" by Antonio Vivaldi's along with an array of sacred and secular works celebrating the holiday season. We were joined by high school singers from The Trenton Children's Chorus who sang the "Gloria" with us and treated the audience to several selections. In May 2025, we presented Mozart's "Requiem," famously left incomplete at his death. Rather than the widely known completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, which contains numerous harmonic and orchestral inaccuracies, we performed the more recent completion by Robert Levin which adheres more closely to Mozart's style. In addition, we presented the local premiere of Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia's (1767-1830) "Requiem." Nunes Garcia led the first performance of Mozart's Requiem in Brazil and then used the work as a model for his own setting a few years later. A fascinating juxtaposition for our performers and audience. All three major works were performed with orchestra. The 2025 year was the third year since the relaunch of the Young Composers Project; it was a great success. Voices sponsors the Young Composers Project (YCP), which provides the opportunity for children aged 5-12 to learn music composition skills by participating in a workshop led by a professional composer who critiques their work and gives helpful, age-appropriate guidance. VCNJ performs each child's composition at a special concert for the children and their families.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
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%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.