Long Island Chamber Music Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873424249
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Commack, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6317477655
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,339
- Expenses
- $81,746
- Assets
- $83,987
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICHOLAS DiBERARDINO (President)
People named in this filing
- NICHOLAS DiBERARDINO (President)
- THOMAS BANDAR (Treasurer)
- TINA GONZALEZ (Secretary)
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
To educate the public about classical music and promote the appreciation of classical music by performing classical music concerts and conducting music lessons and educational programs about classical music.
What it reported doing in 2025
LICM's concerts have reached a diverse audience of between 60 and 200 audience members per perfomance.LICM performed concerts in 2025 reaching over 1000 Long Islanders. LICM's classical music lessons are provided to over 40 families annually on various instruments supporting a world-class musical and cultural education for Long Islanders at an accessible price.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.6%; rating input score 27
- Program expense ratio: 35.9%; rating input score 36
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.9%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -37.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 50.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.6% of revenue deployed · 35.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.