Eureka Ensemble Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814063626
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9199519456
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,595
- Expenses
- $12,770
- Assets
- $21,162
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALAN TODA-AMBARAS (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
People named in this filing
- ALAN TODA-AMBARAS (PRESIDENT/TREASURER)
- JULIE INGELFINGER (SECRETARY)
- BRIAN CORR (CLERK)
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
To perform in classical music, concerts with a focus on social service and outreach programming. Through such concerts, we will provide opportunities to socio-economically underserved communities to engage with art while simultaneously raising interest in classical music.
What it reported doing in 2024
- spring semester workshops on chamber music, leadership, and teamwork with teenage immigrant/refugee youth enrolled in the youth employment training programs run by la colaborativa, an immigrant and labor rights advocacy organization based in chelsea, ma (and eureka's partner organization for music programming).- a free (and recorded) public concert featuring eureka ensemble's resident string quartet at the pucker art gallery on newbury st, boston.- a free, family-friendly string quartet performance in the galleries of the harvard museum of natural history in january.- a collaborative performance between the kendall square orchestra and eureka's women's chorus in boston's symphony hall in may, in support of the boston healthcare for the homeless program (the women's chorus' involvement was made possible by eureka ensemble and its partnership with the women's lunch place food shelter as well - the chorus members are all regular guests at the shelter, and the may concert participants each received stipends for the performance).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.8%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
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: 55.3%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 60; 60th 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: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -22.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.8% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.