Crescendo
Legal name: Crescendo Mission Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203238185
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lakeville, CT, United States
- Phone
- (860) 435-4866
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $76
- Assets
- $1,084
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles Cheng (President)
- Karen Cheng (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Charles Cheng (President)
- Karen Cheng (Vice President)
- Geoffrey Cheng (Director)
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
Crescendo’s mission is to give its audience and performers classical music experiences that are emotionally alive and personally meaningful. Diversity, inclusion, and equity are connected to our mission. Crescendo seeks to present music of many traditions to audiences of many traditions. We respect and value diverse experiences and heritages, because an environment that welcomes diversity and inclusion will nurture ideas and perspectives that could not be fostered otherwise. Crescendo holds that diversity, equity, and inclusion are drivers of institutional excellence. Crescendo expects that its board, staff, partners and stakeholders will reflect and embrace these core values. Crescendo’s board supports examining how inequities in society affects what Crescendo does and how best to address that in a way that is consistent with ou.
What it reported doing in 2025
No service provided in 2025
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.26; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -13.2% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.