Worcester Children's Chorus
Legal name: Worcester Children's Chorus Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272819456
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Worcester, MA, US
- Phone
- 5083407136
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,969
- Expenses
- $164,115
- Assets
- $86,708
- Liabilities
- $60,621
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUSIE CABRAL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ABIGAIL CHILDS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALFRED HARGRAVE (TREASURER)
- PAMELA MINDELL (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR)
- JENNIFER TALLAGNON (DIRECTOR)
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
Worcester Children’s Chorus unites diverse youth in an inclusive community to foster choral excellence, self-discovery, and cultural enrichment through collaboration, education, and performance as a vibrant part of Worcester’s arts and cultural landscape.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide quality musical experiences to children through choral singing and activities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.9%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 65%; rating input score 65
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: -1.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.7; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 65.9% of revenue deployed · 65% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $107K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.