GREATER CINCINNATI BLUES SOCIETY INC DBA Cincy Blues Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311311304
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5137392583
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,885
- Expenses
- $22,930
- Assets
- $10,651
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Thomas Thiem (President / Trustee)
- Bonita Frenzel (Vice President / Trustee)
People named in this filing
- Thomas Thiem (President / Trustee)
- Bonita Frenzel (Vice President / Trustee)
- Paul Stegman (Secretary / Trustee)
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 preserve and promote blues music, an indigenous American art form.
What it reported doing in 2024
Website and Social Media. The Cincy Blues Society hosts a website with original content for members and guests. The society also maintains a calendar of local, regional, and national blues acts touring through the region that can be updated by members and bands. Additionally, the society sends out weekly email blues blasts to subscribers with listings of upcoming blues events and regional festivals. lastly, the Society maintains a presence on Facebook for direct contact with the general public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.4%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
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: 11.4%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 28; 28th 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: -32.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -27.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.