Yamhill Enrichment Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
274846178
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Mcminnville, OR, USA
Phone
5038839654
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community, Neighborhood Development

Reported finances

Revenue
$679,549
Expenses
$476,200
Assets
$628,898
Liabilities
$104,867

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SUSAN SOKOL BLOSSER (President)

People named in this filing

  • SUSAN SOKOL BLOSSER (President)
  • ROBIN PEDERSON (Director)
  • LINDA JODOIN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Transforming the lives of Yamhill County children through literacy and music enrichmentwithout regard to the childs religion, race, ethnicity, language, citizenship, gender status, or ability to pay.

What it reported doing in 2024

Joy (formerly referred to as "Enriching Lives through Music, or ELM and Junior Orchestra of Yamhill County, or JOY) is an orchestral program based on the El Sistema movement. It is offered in nine public elementary schools in Yamhill County. Joy provides all kinder and first grade students with weekly violin instruction as part of their regular in school music curriculum. YES provides the instruments and teaching artists for the program at no cost to the school districts. In fiscal year 2024, Joy served approximately 870 students in the K-1 program. Additionally, Joy offers an optional after-school program at three elementary schools in the county for students in grades 2-5. Students are given the option of learning the violin, viola, or cello and work with professional teaching artists. There is a small tuition fee to participate in the after-school program. In fiscal year 2024, 110 students participated in Joy after-school programing. Additionally, Joy offers summer camp for students in grades 2-5 and mid spring honor camp for students in 4-8th grades. These additional camps provided intense instruction for an additional 90 students. Joy works in collaboration with Newberg and McMinnville School Districts, the Oregon Symphony, Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, George Fox University, Fear No Music and many other community members and indivduals to bring high caliber, orchestral instruction opportunities to the youth of Yamhill County.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 50.3%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 29.9%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 50.3% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $339K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.