Association for the Development of Vocal Artistry and Neighborhood Cultural Enrichment
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311224121
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122522512
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,598
- Expenses
- $42,585
- Assets
- $37,377
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cheryl Warfield (Founder and CEO)
People named in this filing
- Paula Warfield (Board Chair)
- Frank Cipriano (Board Member)
- Gregory Buchalter (Board Member)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a charitable organization committed to bringing classical vocal music, vocal training, and music education of the highest quality to underserved audiences and the general public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sing With Us! Is our choral initiative for intergenerational ensemble activities. We presented weekly rehearsal workshops in the Bronx and Manhattan from April to June to train new singers to perform in the chorus of our annual June and July concerts, and a special children's training program for 4 weeks in July and August. We trained over 100 South Bronx community members of all backgrounds and ages in free rehearsal workshops, culminating in a June concert at Bronx Music Hall which was free to the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.4%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 61.9%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.4% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.4% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.4% of revenue deployed · 61.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $26K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.