Bakersfield Youth Symphony
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770428960
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6613329582
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,563
- Expenses
- $35,949
- Assets
- $41,886
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW KAO MD (Vice President)
- REGINA PRYOR (President)
People named in this filing
- BEE BARMANN (Director)
- REBECCA BROOKS (DIRECTOR)
- ANDREW KAO MD (Vice President)
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
The bakersfield youth symphony provides gifted young musicians an opportunity to further their education in orchestra performance. The bakersfield youth symphony also introduces its members to advanced orchestral literature and presents performances for the enjoyment of the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Concerts - bakersfield youth symphony members rehearse every monday night from 6:00 to 8:30pm with a professional conductor and various sectional coaches. Rehearsing helps the students to learn to play together as an orchestra. After many rehearsals, the bakersfield youth symphony presents three concerts during the year that are open to the public to attend. The first concert is in the fall (november). The second is in the spring (march or april) and the last concert of the season is in june.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.9%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
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: 34.1%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -32% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.9% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.