New York State Early Music Association Inc D/b/a Nys Baroque
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161314038
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6073010604
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,993
- Expenses
- $179,286
- Assets
- $136,530
- Liabilities
- $1,908
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Peter LaPage (President until May 2025)
- Ronald Harris-Warrick (Director until June 2025 then President)
People named in this filing
- Peter LaPage (President until May 2025)
- Ronald Harris-Warrick (Director until June 2025 then President)
- Walter Freeman (Treasurer)
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
Concert performances of early music using period instruments contributing to the cultural enrichment of the Central New York State region.
What it reported doing in 2025
Concert performances: 5 in-person season of concerts in Syracuse and Ithaca including pre-concert informational lectures
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
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: -14.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.3%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.4% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $143K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2012 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.