Hypercube Ensemble
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830601581
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Woodside, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3472847703
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,146
- Expenses
- $91,593
- Assets
- $2,077
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Erin Rogers (Core Musician, Grant Writer)
- Chris Graham (Core Musician)
- Jay Sorce (Core Musician)
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
Charitable. The mission of Hypercube Ensemble Inc. is to develop and perform new instrumental chamber music for saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion at the highest caliber, champion the work of living composers, provide affordable concerts of adventurous chamber music, and participate in educational activities that provide the public with a deeper understanding of the ensemble in its modern art form.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hypercube Composition Lab (Cubelab) - tuition based educational workshop, 13 composers benefit through premiere performance + audio video recordings of their work, min. of 7 composers receive tuition scholarships based on financial need, professional composers + local arts organizations benefit by receiving workshop fees, 2 virtual (online) premiere concerts (1200+ audience combined), 1 live NYC concert (70+ audience attendance)
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 99% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 0.6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 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
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.