East Metro Symphony Orchestra
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264073452
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Woodbury, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512103657
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Symphony Orchestras
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,324
- Expenses
- $46,822
- Assets
- $99,321
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN RADKE (PRESIDENT)
- EUGENIA MELTZER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROBIN RADKE (PRESIDENT)
- EUGENIA MELTZER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- THERESA WILSON (TREASURER)
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
Emso's mission is to provide a broad range of educational, multicultural, and inspirational orchestral experiences to east metro communities.emso's purpose is to educate the orchestra's musicians and audiences by performing a broad range of culturally diverse, challenging, and entertaining music; to provide opportunities for life-long avocational musicians and accomplished soloists of all ages to perform with a symphony orchestra; and to continue the orchestra's tradition since 1957 of providing affordable concerts to east metro audiences.
What it reported doing in 2024
Emso performs 4 concerts per concert year (between september & may) to the general public at area churches or high school auditoriums. These concerts highlight the musical interests & talents of our musicians. Emso also presents a program called symphonies for seniors, which provides 2-4 large ensemble concerts and 6-10 small ensemble concerts to senior residencies around the east metro of the twin cities each year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.9%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.4%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.9% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.