Northeast Regional Folk Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
010651589
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone
8453047368
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$176,211
Expenses
$172,798
Assets
$64,264
Liabilities
$6,918

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Daniel Gottfried (Vice President)
  • TARA SHANNON (President)
  • Ethan Scott Baird (executive director)

People named in this filing

  • CHERYL PRASHKER (MEMBER AT LARGE)
  • Justin Nordell (Member at large)
  • Daniel Gottfried (Vice President)

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

Northeast regional folk alliance (nerfa) is an affiliate of folk alliance international -- a Kansas city, mo-based nonprofit membership organization that seeks to nurture, engage and empower the international folk music community through education, advocacy and performance.

What it reported doing in 2024

Nerfa produces an annual in-person conference in november of each year. The conference provides 4 days of panels, peer groups, performance showcases, and other programs for over 400 artists, presenters and other music professionals. In addition, nerfa offered the opportunity to attend master classes over an additional day of the conference this year.

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

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: 1.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 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.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.