Asheville Chamber Music Series
Legal name: Asheville Chamber Music Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581466387
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Asheville, NC, United States
- Phone
- (828) 575-7427
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,536
- Expenses
- $183,692
- Assets
- $316,601
- Liabilities
- $23,864
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REVEREND WILLIAM E SMITH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JACKIE DIRSCHERL (DIRECTOR)
- JAN DOCKENDORF (DIRECTOR)
- WILLIAM L GETTYS (TREASURER)
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
To bring world class chamber music to Asheville and Western North Carolina.
What it reported doing in 2024
4) delivered our first free chamber music concert for public school students, bussing them to the concert location. Grant funding came from the North Carolina arts council and artsavl. 5) delivered master class for advanced string students in western North Carolina
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.5%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 63.1%; rating input score 63
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: 4.1%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 62.5% of revenue deployed · 63.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $116K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.