Connecticut Early Music Festival
Legal name: Connecticut Early Music Society Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061073186
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New London, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8604159545
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,992
- Expenses
- $101,805
- Assets
- $365,034
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wendy Schnur (Vice President)
- Henry Clapp (President)
People named in this filing
- Benjamin Duncheng Jiang (Secretary)
- Deborah Shah (Trustee)
- Wendy Schnur (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promoting the knowledge and appreciation of early music performed in historically appropriate style.
What it reported doing in 2025
CEMS promotes knowledge and appreciation of music through its June festival, its concerts in spring and fall, its programs for school children, and concert lectures. Operations proceed through its dedicated volunteers and highest quality musical and operational directors.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: 17.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.59; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.