Capital City Symphony
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521317066
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023997993
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Symphony Orchestras
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $176,482
- Expenses
- $198,941
- Assets
- $205,882
- Liabilities
- $2,863
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
People named in this filing
- Alex Swartsel (Director)
- Virginia Elgin (Vice Chair)
- Howard Spendelow (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
Sponsors orchestral and chamber music concerts
What it reported doing in 2024
During the 2024-2025 season, Capital City Symphony gave sixperformances, conducted by our Artistic Director, Victoria Gau. Performances included our subscription series concerts, a family concert featuring an instrument petting zoo, and an appearance as part of the Atlas Performing Arts Center Intersections Festival.
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 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 69.7%; rating input score 70
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: -12.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 69.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $139K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.