Association of Dominican Classical Artists Inc
Overview
Mission
Founded in 1980 by pianist tilsia brens, the association of dominican classical artists, inc. Adca's mission is to promote and foster appreciation for classical music, it's composers, and interpreters from the dominican republic and latin america, through performing art and folklore. Adca brings live performances of classical, folkloric and traditional latin american music to it immediate community and New York city as a whole.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Washington heights community conservatory of fine arts has as its mission, to enrich the lives of children in Washington heights, inwood and harlem. These communities have been historically underserved in the areas of music and art instruction. We offer an inclusive culturally sensitive environment founded on the belief that instruction in the arts strengthens academic performance and transform the lives of children. 185 students enrolled in various department under our rigorous 6-years curriculum during this fiscal year. We continued to offer our casa project located at gregorio luperon high school. We were given the opportunity to offer a free spanish and english music and fine arts program to students grades pre-k-12. A total of 30 students from gregorio luperon high school were accepted into our program. We also offered our casa project to community health academy of the heights. We enrolled 15 students. The music program provided private instructions, and theoretical training to these students. For fiscal year 2025, we were also given the casa project at ps 115. We enrolled 20 students. Students presented a winter concert at alianza triangle building where they played standards from the classical music canon and performed latin american classical works and arrangements from latin american folk music. Students presented two free concerts to the community, a winter recital in january 2025 and an end of the year concert in may 2025 at gregorio luperon high school.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133843597
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Headquarters
- Bronx, NY, USA
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $491.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.14; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.8% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $489K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 annual filings from 2016 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.