The Quelbe Institute for the Preservatio N of Traditional Music and Dance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 660841779
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Christiansted, VI, USA
- Phone
- 3407737282
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,270
- Expenses
- $32,458
- Assets
- $130,888
- Liabilities
- $250
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kevin Rames (President)
People named in this filing
- Kevin Rames (President)
- Janis Rames (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To research, study, analyze, record, archive, protect and promote the traditional music and dance of the United States Virgin Islands.
What it reported doing in 2025
To take an active interest in, and to promote, the social, civic, cultural and moral welfare of the Virgin Islands community.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: -515.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.03; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.