Ensemblenyc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831224636
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9179923743
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,108
- Expenses
- $36,018
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tom Jennings (President)
People named in this filing
- Tom Jennings (President)
- Arthi Nandakumar (Secretary)
- Carolyn Jacobs (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To bring hope and joy through excellent performance of quality choral music, and through giving a portion of our gross ticket sales to charitable organizations
What it reported doing in 2025
Newnan, Georgia, September 8, 2026. This concert featured Britten's "Rejoice in the Lamb", with other composers including Whitacre, Vaughan Williams, Haydn, Carnelia, and Dawson. the concert highlighted Bridging the Gap, a nonprofit organization committed to supporting individuals and families in need, to which attendees were given an opportunity to contribute. A workshop in choral conducting was also presented for area conductors to develop their conducting skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.5%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.2%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.5% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.