2026-08-09T11:33:07-07:00 2025-12-31 990 2025-01-01 232788513 NBS CLASSICAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC NBSC 6103041198 461 W Lancaster Ave Haverford PA 19041 David Lefkovitz Administrator 6103041198 2026-09-01 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Elena Berman 170 Pennsylvania Ave Bryn Mawr PA 19010 75512 0 X https://nbsmusic.com/nbs-classical-music-institute/ X 1994 PA The NBS Classical Music Institute supports gifted and hardworking students through a merit-based scholarship program and provides support for student chamber groups and ensembles. Additionally, the Institute presents high-level classical concerts, masterclasses, and workshops to the greater Philadelphia community. Scholarship recipients have won top prizes in national, and international competitions, performed as soloists with numerous orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, and appeared in music festivals in the USA, Italy, France, Russia, including the Tanglewood Music Festival and the Van Cliburn Institute. They have performed at such concert venues as Carnegie Hall and the Kimmel Center. Scholarship students have gone on to attend top universities and music conservatories, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and the Manhattan and Eastman Schools of Music. 3 3 0 2 5790 0 11113 10699 0 0 63727 59023 5790 5790 80630 75512 110000 98936 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6500 9745 116500 108681 -35870 -33169 543337 520950 0 0 543337 520950 The Institute provides classical music scholarships primarily to children from 5 to 17 years of age, but also to some adults. The instruction is in individual instruments, chamber ensembles, and small orchestra. It also presents public concert recitals of these students and their teachers. 0 0 108681 98936 69722 152 individual scholarship awards were made for taking advanced music training. Awards were made on the basis of talent, a willingness to take two lessons per week, adhere to a suitable practice schedule, and have the need for such support. Scholarships are awarded by a committee of judges formed from the grantee organization. 0 0 0 108681 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 X David Lefkovitz 6103041198 461 W Lancaster Ave Haverford PA 19041 X David Lefkovitz Administrator 2.0 X X 5500 0 0 Elena Berman President 3.0 X X X 0 0 0 Emma Gantard Director 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Faina Lushtak Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 5500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2255 0 0 8444 0 10699 0 59023 59023 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5790 1215 0 5790 5790 0 0 75512 59023 5790 0 98936 98936 5500 5500 3420 3420 0 0 825 825 0 108681 108681 0 0 17960 25768 525377 495182 543337 520950 0 0 0 X 543337 520950 0 0 543337 520950 543337 520950 -33169 10782 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 22277 17519 20400 18118 21398 99712 22277 17519 20400 18118 21398 99712 99712 20932 19347 24183 23043 59023 146528 -3457 3688 3628 0 0 3859 250099 0 0.39869 0.46067 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 1 Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 - All public support has been reported in Section A Line 1. Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 - All public support has been reported in Section A Line 1. 1 Nelly Berman School of Music 461 W Lancaster Ave Haverford PA 19041 232662216 98936 The major purpose is the granting of scholarships to qualifying students of the school. Secondary purposes are to augment the salaries of exceptional teachers and to provide some office management assistance in hardware and software technology. 1 0 Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 - The president or a qualified director of the grantee organization produces a Quarterly Awards Table that details and explains categories of usage upon which the granted funds are based. One or more of our directors examines approves this table each quarter, and then the quarterly funds are granted. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b. The 990 is prepared by a consultant, David Lefkovitz. He reviews it with the Corporate President, Elena Berman, before submission. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c - The only persons who might have such a conflict are the 3 Board members (Directors), including the President. The only type of conflict is as follows: The NBS CMI provides scholarships to students in the Nelly Berman School of Music. If any Board member has children in the school they may not vote on scholarship awards for their own children. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 - This is not relevant, because no Board member, including the President, receives compensation Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 - All such documents are made available to any individual or organization upon request, if presented with appropriate credentials indicating a bona fide need for this information. A Form 8868 was submitted via e-File and accepted. Following are the e-file remarks. "The Form 8868 was completed by David Lefkovitz, Administrator, on 3/14/2026 3:09 PM via E-file. An e-File Status and Response of the acceptance was: Status: "E-file Accepted" Description: "Congratulations. This Return was Accepted on 3/16/2026" Postmark: "3/16/2026 _