Pof Classical Arts Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861236503
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2126756205
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,065
- Expenses
- $132,169
- Assets
- $112,512
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eric Margiore (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Eric Margiore (Executive Director)
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
The Premiere Opera Foundation is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the operatic art form through discovering, nurturing, and honoring the most promising, up and coming opera singers in the world today, by enhancing their careers through financial, educational, and ongoing advisory support, and by providing them the opportunity to be artists in creative service, through our community centered performances which offer cultural exchange, and extend outreach, education, and essential therapeutic value to continents all over the world, by harnessing the diversity and humanity of our artists and the art form itself.
What it reported doing in 2025
Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 67% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.4%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 36.7%; rating input score 37
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 70.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.4% of revenue deployed · 36.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.