Los Alamos Concert Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850248601
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Los Alamos, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5056625762
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $167,921
- Expenses
- $150,611
- Assets
- $184,401
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bill Blumenthal (President)
- Pierre-Yves Le Bas (1st Vice-President, Program Editor)
- Jane Lin (2nd Vice-President, Marketing)
People named in this filing
- Linda Deck (Artistic Director)
- Bill Blumenthal (President)
- Pierre-Yves Le Bas (1st Vice-President, Program Editor)
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 provide concerts, recitals, and other musical performances for residents of Los Alamos and surrounding areas. To cultivate in residents of Los Alamos and its surrounding areas an interest in and knowledge of good music.
What it reported doing in 2025
A season of 5 unique classical music concerts is provided each school year for Los Alamos, NM and its surrounding communities, generating total attendance of approximately 1,500 to 2,000 individuals, including students (ages 6 through 18) and northern New Mexico music educators who attend for free (or for a nominal charge for special concerts) to further their musical education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- 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: 10.3%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 65; 65th 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: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $151K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.