Williamsburg Choral Guild

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521217092
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Williamsburg, VA, USA
Phone
8048322987
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$94,090
Expenses
$101,042
Assets
$93,995
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • William Weiser (President)

People named in this filing

  • William Weiser (President)
  • Randy Bittner (1st VP Programs)
  • David Welch (2nd VP)

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

Our approximately 75 member community chorus performs choral concerts each season, bringing the community the opportunity to hear the finest masterworks choral music. We work with local high schools and colleges to offer scholarships to encourage participation by students in these community masterworks choral events. We typically serve approximately 2,000 people. We performed five performances for the 2025-2026 season.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our chorus is the only mixed gender chorus offering classical masterworks choral programming for the community on a regular schedule. We work with local high schools and colleges to offer scholarships to encourage participation by students in these community masterworks choral events. We typically offer 3 to 4 concerts (with two concerts performed twice) and serve approximately 2000 people. In this program year we offered 4 concerts (6 performances) for our community.

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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -7.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $98K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.