2024-09-25T20:07:18-07:00 2024-06-30 990EZ 2023-07-01 132890709 CHINESE MUSIC ENSEMBLE OF NEW YORK INC CHIN 2129256110 POBox 1062/128 East Broadway New York NY 100020913 ANCHI LIN Executive Director 9086018649 2024-09-14 1 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X X chinesemusicensemble.org X X 120341 X 88697 24894 0 2510 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4240 120341 13250 0 0 67326 27411 701 11459 120147 194 12 0 206 12 206 0 0 0 0 12 206 0 0 12 206 To share, to preserve and to continue the beauty of the traditional Asian heritage music and cultural arts from the BCs till the contemporary world. CMENY provided 2 major concerts to the tri-state areas music fans, which focused on classical Asian heritage music. Over 800 audiences directly benefited from attending the two formal concerts. Key expense items were the concert hall rental fees. For the Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center types of concert halls, the rental expenses are very high which ranges from $35K to $60K. 42800 57029 CMENY also organized 3 terms of youth learning programs to coach younger generation kids to learn classical instruments. Over a dozen young families benefited from the youth learning program. 3206 8826 CMENY obtained a 3-year grant from the New York City Cultural Development Funds in the amount of $14885. CMENY utilized the amount to support the development of youth orchestra, teaching young players the traditional instruments and also to support our major concerts in FY23 and FY24. There is an amount of $15000 is accrual in FY23 for FY24 concert hall rental, which is expected to cost CMENY at the amount of over $60000. Therefore, we decided to accrual an amount of $15000 for FY24 concert hall rental. 14885 14290 CMENY provided music education and sharing Chinese heritage music performances when invited by local schools and communities. Such as our annual community performance at the HK Dragon Boat Festival invited by the New York City Park System; the performances in celebration of Asian Heritage Month invited by Queen's YMCA, China Institute, JP Morgan Chase, LaGuardia Airport Terminal B, etc. CMENY also sent our musicians to play music to the severely sick children at the Mother Cabrini Hospital in Manhattan, NYC. Direct audiences benefited from our programs could be at about 1250. 16000 23150 103295 HONGTAO SUN Executive Director 5 0 0 0 Jessica LIN Associate Director & Ticketing Sales 5 0 0 0 Wen Jie Xia Artistic Committee Member 5 0 0 0 Yu Yuan Xu Artistic Committee Member 5 0 0 0 Feifei Yang Artistic Committee Member 5 0 0 0 Katelyn Weng Communication Manager 5 0 0 0 Xiao-Ran Liu Director of Operating Committee 10.00 0 0 0 Wei Sun Artistic Committee Member 5 0 0 0 Anchi Lin Executive Director 15 0 0 0 Yong-Ping Wu Treasurer 10 0 0 0 Julian Gau Music Director 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NY Chinese Music Ensemble of New York Inc Chinese Music Ensemble of New York Inc POBox 1062/128 East Broadway New York NY 100020913 2129256110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 30370 40845 156129 78616 54885 360845 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30370 40845 156129 78616 54885 360845 360845 20 20 16 1 2510 2567 0 0 0 0 0 0 12200 0 10480 700 4240 27620 391032 0.92280 0.90796 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 $4200 received from an oversea middle school from China with young musicians who performed at New York city. They rent a number of large instruments from CMENY. This is not our "usual" type of business activity. However, we thought that we should help this group out simply by renting large sized instruments that we could coordinate but difficult for them to bring over from China. $40 was the fee paid to CMENY by a new joiner who purchased the ensemble performing outfits that we purchased in bulk during 2022. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 Chinese Music Ensemble of New York owns a few traditional Chinese instruments, such as Guzheng, Yangqin, drums, chimes, etc. Our members also own their own instruments. There was a middle school orchestra from China who was invited to perform in Lincoln Center. They borrowed a number of large sized instrument from us for that performance. We charge them rental fee and handling fees in the amount of $4200. Among the revenue, 60% was paid to the members who own those instruments, 10% were paid to the teacher that assisted with this transaction. This is not a regular business activity of CMENY. We were just providing our support to an oversea youth group to deliver their music performance in New York. Among the instruments lent out, $40 was a payment made by one of our newly joined members who paid for the ensemble uniform that CMENY purchased in 2022. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Chinese Music Ensemble of New York acted as a financial sponsor for Horizon Ensemble Inc (EIN:87-3058480) in FY23 before Horizon Ensemble received its full 501(c)3 filing status. Horizon Ensemble received $13250 grants from Boston Council of the Arts and MASS Cultural Council for their fiscal year 2023. CMENY received the funds on behalf of Horizon Ensemble and then transfer the full amount to Horizon Ensemble. Horizon Ensemble subsequently received its non-profit status from the IRS on February 15, 2023; and registered with the Commonwealth of MASS as a 501(c)3 organization on March 16, 2023. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Includes: $2599.79 of transportation fees paid to moving instruments to and from our rehearsal place to the concert halls and taxi fees incurred by musicians traveling with large instruments to do their performance activities. $483.32 Verizon Phone bills. $156.09 Google emails and storage related expenses. $3600 reimbursement to CMNEY members for those that rented their own instruments to the middle school group that rented instruments from CMENY. $430 CMENY mailbox rental from NYC post office. $4096 related to non-concert-hall related expenses, such as group lunches, water, and food for 46 to 65 members during our two major concerts.