The New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222274061
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 8482280443
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,833
- Expenses
- $37,119
- Assets
- $17,133
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John L Semmlow (President)
People named in this filing
- John L Semmlow (President)
- Robin Connerat (Treasurer)
- B Wayne Anderson (Financial Officer)
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
High quality professional chamber-music concerts.
What it reported doing in 2025
The New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra (NBCO) season consisted of a Salon concert series and two major performances. The Salon series on The Revolutionary War in New Jersey through words and music ran five performances. It also featured a world premier by New Jersey composer, David Rimelis "The Times That Try Our Souls" performed in collaboration with the New Jersey Composers Guild. We held two full concerts, a Winter Concert, "Sounds Of The Season," which included collaboration with four local choirs, and the spring concert, "For Love of the New World," featuring Antonin Dvorak's Symphony "From the New World." Both concerts were held at Rutgers University Nicholas Auditorium. An educational component is always included during the performances providing details on the composer, the history, and the unique features of the composition presented by our artistic director. Some of the pieces of our salons and the concerts have been presented by radio broadcast and in digital format on YouTube. Our in-person performances served over 800 participants, and the digital performances allowed us to expand our outreach over social media.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.