Brooklyn Art Song Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460634141
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9175096258
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,978
- Expenses
- $203,125
- Assets
- $7,741
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- Matthew Diller (Chairman)
- Ellen Brofman (Administrative Director)
- Miori Sugiyama (Secretary)
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 produce concert performances primarliy (but not exclusively) of art song. To help advance awareness and appreciation of art song repertoire. To generally contribute to the cultural vibrancy of the borough of Brooklyn and beyond. To commission new works by contemporary composers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Brooklyn Art Song Society produced live classical music (art song) concerts in the borough of Brooklyn, New York. The season featured professional musicians (singers and pianists) and reached and audience of over 1,000. Senior citizens and students received free admission. Artists presented outreach to underserved communities. Subscriber and patrons utilized the digital concert hall, left over from the year of the pandemic. This increased our audience to across the country. Commissions of new music by outstanding young composers were featured in our New Voices series (last 3 concerts of season) Income for commissions comes from a government grant and donations and ticket sales.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.3%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.3% of revenue deployed · 0.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $500 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.