Swapan Chaudhuri Digital Tabla Library
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871838658
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Rafael, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4157931796
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,173
- Expenses
- $46,124
- Assets
- $102,271
- Liabilities
- $2,451
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SWAPAN CHAUDHURI (President)
- JANE CHAUDHURI (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- NILANJAN A CHAUDHURI (Secretary)
- SWAPAN CHAUDHURI (President)
- JANE CHAUDHURI (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
The Swapan Chaudhuri Digital Tabla Library is a unique online resource designed to provide the public with access to the teachings and performances of Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri, a master of North Indian Classical music and a world-renowned exponent of the tabla (North Indian percussion instrument). Supporting the Swapan Chaudhuri Digital Tabla Library will help ensure the continuity of North Indian Classical tabla for generations to come. Our mission is to protect, preserve, and provide access to the teaching and performance legacy of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, and the tradition of the Lucknow Gharana of Tabla, in perpetuity. Our vision is one where any person, anywhere in the world, who sincerely wants to learn the art of Tabla and enrich themselves with this tradition, will have access to the highest level of instruction and a vast collection of Tabla compositions.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Swapan Chaudhuri Digital Tabla Library has compiled about 4,000 compositions taught over the past 40 years by Swapan Chaudhuri, a renowned expert in the tradition of North Indian Tabla percussion. These compositions are posted online in the form of video demonstrations, audio files, written notation, live recordings, and other educational materials. The library has since expanded these materials and segregated a database entitled, "First Lessons," designed for students without prior training. The musical notation has been updated to be more consistent and easier to follow, the organization of specific composition types has been improved along with improved navigation and functionality. A new mobile App was added to allow easy access to this incredible database. In addition, there are over 35 live concert recordings and interviews available on the site, and video recordings of instruction from other well-know tabla players have been added. These materials are publicly available via the SCDTL website, www.sctablalibrary.org, and are accessible through subscription-based memberships. This digital archive was officially launched on November 5,2022 with the goal to preserve the work of Swapan Chaudhuri and the tradition of Indian Classical percussion.Membership fees are an important source of support for the organization's ongoing operational, administrative, and program expenses, supplemented by grants and donations from the general public. We are moving toward our goal to reach a membership base of more than 500 regular subscribers within the next few years. Currently, the website has over 1,400 user accounts, of which 203 are recurring paid subscribers. Additional musical compositions and educational materials are being added on a regular basis. Within the last year, 200 classes and about 650 compositions were added to the digital library. This project is continually developing.
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
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.8%; rating input score 71
- 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: 11.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.22; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.9% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.8% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.