Constella Arts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272948627
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2021
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, US
- Phone
- 513.549.7175
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33
- Expenses
- $7,162
- Assets
- $1,238
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tatiana Berman (CEO/Artistic Director)
- Randolph Wadsworth (President)
People named in this filing
- Tatiana Berman (CEO/Artistic Director)
- Randolph Wadsworth (President)
- Judy Zitnik-Finn (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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Constella Arts is on a mission to engage, connect and inspire new audiences by producing quality digital content, educational events, and innovative performances, along the way changing misconceptions about classical music and the performing arts.
What it reported doing in 2021
Constella festival has presented over 70 world premieresof ground-breaking works, and multi-sensory artisticperformanes that interweave music, digital art, film and dance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21,603%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.5% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2013 to 2021
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.