Windsync

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
454879222
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
7022757014
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$424,960
Expenses
$368,480
Assets
$210,312
Liabilities
$813

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANNI HOCHHALTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MUSICIAN CHAIR)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANNI HOCHHALTER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MUSICIAN CHAIR): $49,942 total reported compensation
  • JULIAN HERNANDEZ (BOARD MEMBER): $2,100 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To enrich lives of children, families, and all members of the community through innovative, interactive chamber music concerts and educational programs.

What it reported doing in 2024

Program awindsync performed live concert recitals and educational programs in 27 cities across the country reaching over 11,000 audience members total and approximately 6,000 students in free educational programs in schools. The 2024-2025 season included 8 educational residencies and 87 concert presentations by national chamber music partners and universities including newport classical, honens, austin chamber music center, harvard musical association, emerald city music, chamber music northwest, ravinia, and shelter island friends of music, and kent blossom among others. Windsync also served as faculty for a week-long wind program with madeline island chamber music in la pointe, wi.program bwindsync presented a series of concerts in its homebase houston, Texas each in unique locations or venues designed to highlight the intersection of chamber music and public spaces. The quintet partnered with the newly inaugurated houston music festival for its debut concert at alta arts and performed an opening presentation in november. In february, windsync presented a mainstage concert at rice memorial chapel dedicated to the legacy of nadia boulanger and participated as the ensemble-in-residence with the chamber music america conference including a composer's workshop and a feature performance at the culminating gala dedicated to the fischoff national chamber music competition. Additional programming included the 9th annual onstage offstage chamber music festival and a mainstage concert at match featuring a newly commissioned work by akshaya avril tucker as well as educational residency partnerships with the houston youth symphony, the center for performing arts medicine, and the Texas children's cancer center. Program cartistic and professional support for core musicians. Windsync supports the production and/or promotion of individual projects or activities carried out by core musicians in the field of chamber music. During the 2024-2025 season windsync did not specifically support an individual musician's project.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 62% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 68
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.9%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.3%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.9% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $318K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.