Friends of Budapest Festival Orchestra Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133836432
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2128795157
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Single Organization Support
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$39,500
Expenses
$23,132
Assets
$58,636

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NICHOLAS HERSH (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • STEPHEN ANGEL (DIRECTOR)
  • SYLVIA HEMMINGWAY (DIRECTOR)
  • AMBASSADOR COLLEN BELL (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

Fundraising to support the programs of the budapest orchestra. These programs include chamber concerts during the pandemic, ensemble concerts in restored synagogues, children's orphanages and elder care institutions in hungary, concerts for autisitic children in hungary and New York, the purchase of musical instruments, etc.

What it reported doing in 2025

The friends of the budapest festival orchestra inc supports musical programs of the budapest festival orchestra (hungary) by contributing funds for its concerts but also for the orchestra's ensemble concerts in restored histroic synagogues in hungary, children's orphanages and elder care institutions in hungary, concerts for autisitic children in hungary and New York, when the orchestra tours in the united states.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 41.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.53; rating input score 71; 71st 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: -84.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -32.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.