East Winds Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 134078840
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2010–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: New York, NY, USA
Phone: 6464188808
Rating: 77
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $124,109
Expenses: $94,615
Assets: $30,435
Liabilities: $2,580

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

Marco Lienhard (Executive Dir.)
Geoffrey Polischuk (Treasurer)
Masayo Ishigure Tokue (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

Performed approximately 30 school shows, in-person and virtual. Held 45 workshops internationally and domestically and did about 3 regular performances during the year

What it reported doing in 2025

Performed approximately 50 assemblies, 30 concerts and 45 workshops internationally and domestically and did about 3 regular performances during the year

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 - 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 83
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 47
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 73.7%; rating input score 74
Program expense ratio: 96.7%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 23.8%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 62.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 73.7% of revenue deployed · 96.7% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 2 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.