The Dryden Ensemble a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
223318015
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Princeton, NJ, USA
Phone
6094668541
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Performing Arts Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$18,127
Expenses
$16,870
Assets
$5,242
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Carter van Dyke (President)

People named in this filing

  • Carter van Dyke (President)
  • Jane McKinley (Artistic Director)
  • Peggy de Wolf (Secretary)

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

To provide concerts of baroque and early classical music

What it reported doing in 2024

Royal Concerts: the Marvelous Mr. Meusel: March 16. This concert offers a rare glimpse into an underrepresented performance-practice of lutes and harpsichords: performing en concert with doubling strings and winds. This is the repertoire featured in royal apartments, from Paris & Versailles to Gotha, from London to Leipzig. This concert will be the regional premiere of the Concerti of Gottfried Meusel-court lutenist at Gotha. Dryden regulars Daniel Swenberg (Baroque Lute, Theorbo, and Gallichone), Webb Wiggins (Harpsichord), Lisa Terry (Viola da Gamba), will be joined by Taya Tarasevich Koenig (Baroque Flute)

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -35% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -31.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -34.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 82.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.