The Frederick Symphony Orchestra Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522041757
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Frederick, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3016316864
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Symphony Orchestras
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,515
- Expenses
- $88,522
- Assets
- $106,292
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Matthew R Stegle (President)
- Rita O'Neil (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Matthew R Stegle (President)
- Beverly S Moulden (Treasurer)
- Rita O'Neil (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
Community Orchestra
What it reported doing in 2024
Six Symphonic concerts were produced during the subscriptionseason from July 2024 through June 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 60% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 45%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -36.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.