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Is Your Organization On The IRS’ Naughty List? Here’s How You Can Find Out…

Friday, February 19th, 2016 by Drew McManus

Diamonds may be forever, but not tax exempt status. Each year, the Internal Revenue Service automatically revokes an organization’s tax exempt status for failing to file a Form 990-series return or notice for three consecutive years. According to the IRS’ records, 41,479 organizations had their exempt status automatically revoked in 2015 and yes, some of those organizations were from the orchestra field. The IRS maintains a handy searchable database that includes a …

Let’s Take A Look At Big Eight Musician Compensation

Tuesday, December 15th, 2015 by Drew McManus

Now that Cleveland has settled, we can begin to get a sense for how base musician compensation compares across the highest tier of big budget orchestras, which we’ll call The Big Eight (Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, LA, National, New York, Philly, and San Francisco). Granted, we’ll be updating this chart with Cleveland’s figures once that data is available and when it is, it will be interesting to see how they compare with Philly, …

There’s A Lot That Goes Into Making It Look Easy

Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 by Drew McManus

Coordination in six easy steps; at least, according to Chattanooga Symphony & Opera concertmaster Holly Mulcahy, that’s how many it takes to get the string section bowings sorted out and ready for prime time. Mulcahy recently published an article at her blog, Neo Classical, describing how the process works and it’s already racked up several hundred shares as well as Norman Lebrecht calling it out at Slippedisc.com saying “I don’t think …

The IRS Moves One (Tiny) Step Closer To Open Source 990 Data

Friday, July 3rd, 2015 by Drew McManus

The 6/30/2015 edition of The Chronicle Of Philanthropy has an article by Suzanne Perry (h/t Joe Patti) that reports on the legal battle over making Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990 filings available in “machine-readable format.” Granted, that phrase covers a lot of ground so don’t expect the final result to measure up to open data standards but at least this is a step in the right direction, even if it …

This Handy Living Wage Calculator Drills Down To City Level Data

Monday, February 9th, 2015 by Drew McManus

If you work in the field of arts administration, you’ve probably figured out that it isn’t exactly the ideal career if your primary goal in life is to secure a position at the top of the economic food chain. Having said that, and regardless of your position in the field, it’s still good to keep tabs on up to date wage data and I published an article at ArtsHacker on 2/6/2015 …