Buffalo Wind Symphony Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201586846
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7165102839
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,320
- Expenses
- $18,033
- Assets
- $77,592
- Liabilities
- $3,790
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL FURLONG (BOARD MEMBER AND PRESIDENT)
- VALERIE CZAMARA (BOARD MEMBER AND VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PAUL FURLONG (BOARD MEMBER AND PRESIDENT)
- VALERIE CZAMARA (BOARD MEMBER AND VICE PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL ANTON SCIORTINO (BOARD MEMBER AND 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 provide an educational opportunity to the community for participation and advancement in music
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide musical performance opportunities to musicians in the western New York
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.5%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.3; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.