Brightwork Newmusic
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830744920
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $192,936
- Expenses
- $190,725
- Assets
- $46,193
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Aron Kallay (President and Artistic Director)
- Brandon Rolle (Interim Executive Director)
- Sarah Wass (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Aron Kallay (President and Artistic Director)
- Genevieve Lee (Treasurer)
- Shalini Vijayan (Director)
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 enliven and expand contemporary classical music with a focus on West Coast composers and performers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Brightwork Ensemble - Performs tours records and commissions new classical music. The ensemble is a professional level chamber music group that pushes the boundaries of classical performance practice throughout the United States.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.9%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 73.8%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 72.9% of revenue deployed · 73.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $141K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.