Woodlands Symphony Orchestra a Non-profit Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
383915848
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
The Woodlands, TX, USA
Phone
8322573048
Rating
58
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Symphony Orchestras
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,632
Expenses
$52,376
Assets
$0

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

  • DARRYL BAYER (OFFICER)

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

Woodlands symphony orchestra a non-profit corporation promote symphonic music through educational and entertaining programs for all audiences the orchestra performed three concerts in 2024. May 5, 2024, pictures at an exhibition at christ church united methodist. Performed for 550 in attendance. Classical selections such as bolero, rhapsody in blue featuring a now us citizen from ukraine as piano soloist and a student art competition. Expenses: $12250 september 18, 2024: once upon a symphony at the cynthia woods mitchell pavilion. Performed for 6000 in attendance. Featured classical music for children based on fairy tales. Expenses: $17500 december 22, 2024, singing with the symphony at first baptist church the woodlands. Performed for audience of 775. Holiday favorites featuring lyrics on wide-screen tv for a mass sing along. Expenses: $10,700.

What it reported doing in 2024

Only one concert in 2024

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 28
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 25.5%; rating input score 25
  • Program expense ratio: 33.4%; rating input score 33

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: 23.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -120% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 25.5% of revenue deployed · 33.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.