Arnold Schoenberg Center Privatstiftung

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
980192780
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2020
Location
Vienna, AU
Phone
4317121888
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Art Museums

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,806,919
Expenses
$1,446,866
Assets
$46,743,679
Liabilities
$331,809

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dr hc Nuria Schoenberg Nono (President)
  • Mag Daniel Loecker (Vice President City of Vienna Cultural Department)

Highest reported compensation

  • Mag Angelika Moeser (Director): $141,506 total reported compensation
  • Karin Nemec (Assistant Director): $65,020 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization's mission consists in the preservation care and maintenance of Schoenberg's artistic legacy making materials available to the public.

What it reported doing in 2020

The ASCP organizes - mostly bilingual - symposia lectures seminars online exhibitions exhibition tours concerts education programs for children music appreciation classes. The programs of musical events are an important method of education about Schoenberg's work and his influence. These events are conducted at the ASCP's main venue in Vienna at the Palais Fanto as well as at Schoenberg's original house in Moedling the "Schoenberg House," which was donated to the ASCP by the Internationale Schoenberg Gesellschaft International Schoenberg Society Vienna which has been preserved and is a certified historic structure by the Austrian government. The ASCP routinely carries out these activities in coordination with other scientific and cultural organizations such as universities museums music groups and various other nonprofit organizations. Since March 2007 the ASCP has been offering a music appreciation class so that school children from seven to eighteen years of age might have a musical encounter with the life and work of Arnold Schoenberg. In the year 2016 the ASCP created a new format of a composer's seminar for young people from 12 to 18 years. In line of Schoenberg's theory of teaching the young composers get overall instructions and are at the same time invited to develop their own style and technique. The ASCP offers 6 scholarships for each seminar. The ASCP's archivists are teaching music appreciation classes at the Center for Research on Arnold Schoenberg and the Viennese School of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The digital visualization or animation of original manuscripts is an essential point in the communication of musicological content. These are published via social media distribution channels and in exhibitions. Film elements or animations technical realization at ASCP are used to show both stratifications of the score and a chronology of the writing of the scores. Allocation of expenses see 4c last sentence.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% 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

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: 45
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 87
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 27.1%; rating input score 27
  • Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 69.9%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 32.31; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 27.1% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $142K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.