Conscientious Musical Revues

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
061278112
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Staten Island, NY, USA
Phone
8006244016
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music

Reported finances

Revenue
$158,245
Expenses
$427,951
Assets
$629,147
Liabilities
$303,388

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Valencia Emanuel (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Riccardo Cardona Board Chair (Board Chair)
  • Ron Lucas (Board Member)
  • Bruce Gillespie (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

May 31, 2026. is the 37th anniversary of Conscientious Musical Revues improving the quality of life in low income, People of Color communities. Our Motto is Always a Gooood Time! All are programs are FREE and open to the public. CMR is funded by the Dept of Youth and Community Development since FY90/91. CMR ethnically reflects community served because our Board has 1 Latino and 4 African American members; staff and consultants are African American and Latino. CMR's performers and instructors are high quality POC professional artists with international, Broadway, national tours, movies, and commercial credits. Our website is conscientiousrevues.org. CMR recitals are on this YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTDF30ZTjmT6-793mISP1iw. Conscientious Musical Revues served 1025 seniors and adults with 30 hours/wk. of arts, pro concert series, and technology services. CMR's BizBeyond project served 400 NYC entrepreneurs with FREE 1 on 1 coaching.

What it reported doing in 2024

In FY 24/25, CMR served 1031 POC seniors and adults with 20 hours/wk. of classes in dance, drama, art, music, and technology. Host Senior Centers were Sister Annunciata, Mt Carmel, Rain Boston Road, and Chris Blenman. Participants include those who are in wheelchairs, who are amputees, use canes and walkers, and have Alzheimer's or dementia. CMR 804 member email newsletter increased access to arts through YouTube dance concerts, classic movies, and standup comedians. The humor and music eased anxiety. Links with the highest clicks were vintage concerts from different genres of music. CMR used Murray Oberry's New York State Minority/Women Business Enterprise, Afritech, to develop online arts strategy. Afritech helped seniors set up devices and learn zoom. Afritech Workshops teach seniors how to find free arts services on the web. CMR's BizBeyond program serves the POC Arts community by providing supportive business services to organizations and individuals. CMR's BizBeyondTM is honored with the opportunity to increase and improve business in four communities in the Bronx (NDAs 8, 9, 10, and 12) and West Harlem. BizBeyond's expert business consultants are POC who provide FREE 1 on 1 coaching to artist entrepreneurs, which help them thrive and grow. BizBeyondTM helps artists and entrepreneurs, from figuring out how to monetize a hobby or passion, supplementing income with a part-time business, and those who mainly support themselves full-time with a company. BizBeyondTM offers solutions tailored to meet their needs and increase their profitability. BizBeyondTM goal is to assist businesses in developing more profits, expanding their business, or supporting those who wish to start a business. Our services, including individual sessions, group events, and consultations, are provided for FREE.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 85% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 91.4%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -170.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.47; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $391K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.