Friends of Anim
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814927273
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6465324378
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $188,990
- Expenses
- $268,686
- Assets
- $22,226
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LESLEY ROSENTHAL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LESLEY ROSENTHAL (PRESIDENT)
- JESSICA LUSTIG (TREASURER)
- AHMAD SARMAST (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
Friends of anim supports the efforts of the afghanistan nationalinstitute of music, and associacao animp to assure musical rights, transform lives through music, revive and preserve afghan music, trainfuture music educators, and lead cultural diplomacy between
What it reported doing in 2025
Friends of anim supports the efforts of the afghan national institute of music ("anim"), and associao animp. (the portuguese non-profit established to continue the mission of anim in portugal), to: assure musical rights, transform lives through music, revive and preserve afghan music, train future music educators, and lead cultural diplomacy between afghanistan and the international community. Friends of anim's programs also support the resettlement of the anim community in portugal.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 84% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99
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: -42.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -64.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $266K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.