COUNTRY DANCE & SONG SOCIETY INC Folk Music Society of New York Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133468487
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- East Setauket, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3474676720
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,226
- Expenses
- $125,185
- Assets
- $234,858
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Clarice Kjerulff (President)
- Rosalie Friend (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Clarice Kjerulff (President)
- Eileen Pentel (Newsletter Editor)
- Don Wade (Newsletter Production)
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 promote and preserve traditional folk music of all kinds through performances, residential events, and supporting other folk events anad organizations
What it reported doing in 2024
11 newsletters mailed and emailed to members monthly, send out targeted emails 12 times a year to 1200 people and maintain website, Facebook and Instagram pages to broadcast events to members and nonmembers. 2300 followers. Approx 10k Facebook and Instagram and 1200 website views a month
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.