Rhythm Method Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
352777368
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone
9177364122
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$116,875
Expenses
$115,993
Assets
$25,116
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Leah Asher (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Clement So (Director)
  • Leah Asher (Executive Director)
  • Marina Kifferstein (Artistic 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 mission of The Rhythm Method Inc. is to reimagine the string quartet in a contemporary, feminist context. Through creative collaboration, commissioning and performing a diverse range of repertoire, and holding educational workshops and seminars, we share a spectrum of creative possibility with the public. We believe that supporting and nurturing creative voices helps build community, presents a model for collective creativity, and helps to increase appreciation and secure support for contemporary music.

What it reported doing in 2025

To reimagine the string quartet through creative collaboration, commissioning and performing a diverse range of repertoire, and holding educational workshops and seminars, the Rhythm Method offered 15 performances of contemporary music and associated workshops with composers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 29.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 38.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 39.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $93K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.