Early Music Associates Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351857772
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Bloomington, IN, USA
- Phone
- 9152696976
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $139,620
- Expenses
- $147,357
- Assets
- $77,727
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Suzanne Ryan Melamed (President)
- Lynn Schwartzberg (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kirby Haugland (Finance and Administration Manager)
- Steven M Warnock (Festival Manager)
- Anthony Cangemi (Development Manager)
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
Charitable music organization
What it reported doing in 2024
During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, Bloomington Early Music hosted 12 free public concerts in association with the 2025 Bloomington Early Music Festival, our large annual event. In addition to these concerts, held both live in Bloomington, Indiana and virtually online, the festival included 5 community workshops and an educational happy hour on historical ties between music and drink. This year's festival focused on Early Music and the African Diaspora, exploring by and for enslaved Black Africans and their descendants over more than four centuries and across three continents. The festival also included the second iteration of our New Neighbors Art Exhibit, a partnership with Exodus Refugee Immigration Inc. A few weeks before the festival, we welcomed children ages 5 to 15 along with their families for a day of making art, which was then displayed in our performance venues throughout the festival itself. The festival's concerts also included a community showcase featuring a variety of local performers and the culminating performance by the students of the Bloomington Early Music Immersion Program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.