Nonprofit · EIN 11-2451587
BARGEMUSIC LTD
Tax-exempt · BROOKLYN, NY 11201
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 31, 2025 | 990 | $740,285 | $928,274 | -$187,989 | $578,748 | $49,606 | $529,142 |
| August 31, 2024 | 990 | $706,059 | $757,152 | -$51,093 | $794,537 | $77,406 | $717,131 |
| August 31, 2023 | 990 | $623,317 | $733,480 | -$110,163 | $862,866 | $94,642 | $768,224 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $712,782
- of which government grants
- $53,500
- Program service revenue
- $27,397
- Investment income
- $106
- Other revenue
- $0
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $246,115
- Other salaries and wages
- $136,550
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $405,694
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $33,832
- Occupancy
- $17,953
- Depreciation
- $6,742
- Program services (functional)
- $897,885
- Management and general (functional)
- $30,389
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $794,537
- Total assets, end of year
- $578,748
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $49,606
- Net assets, end of year
- $529,142
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $36,198
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $529,142
- Gross receipts
- $740,285
- Employees
- 3
- Volunteers
- 0
- Year formed
- 1977
- State of legal domicile
- NY
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARK PESKANOV | EXECUTIVE/ARTISTIC DIRECTO Key employee | 70 | $246,115 |
| MARK PESKANOV | PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| DR GEZA VON HABSBURG | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| RITA SLOAN | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| DAVID BOTTOMS | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| DEBORGE PINNINGTON | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| JOSEPH COYNE | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
990 for the year ended August 31, 2024: 7 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARK PESKANOV | EXECUTIVE/ARTISTIC DIRECTO Key employee | 70 | $234,999 |
| MARK PESKANOV | PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| DR GEZA VON HABSBURG | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| RITA SLOAN | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| DAVID BOTTOMS | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| DEBORGE PINNINGTON | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| JOSEPH COYNE | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
990 for the year ended August 31, 2023: 7 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARK PESKANOV | EXECUTIVE/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Key employee | 70 | $235,499 |
| MARK PESKANOV | PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| DR GEZA VON HABSBURG | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| RITA SLOAN | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| DAVID BOTTOMS | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| DEBORGE PINNINGTON | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| JOSEPH COYNE | DIRECTOR Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- FULTON FERRY LANDING, BROOKLYN, NY 11201-0000
- In care of
- % STANLEY T STAIRS
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Mark Peskanov, PO BOX 2280 322 WEST 52 STREET, NEW YORK, NY 100199998
- Signed the 990
- Mark Peskanov, Executive Director
- Phone
- (718) 624-4924
- Website
- www.bargemusic.org/
- Return prepared by
- Raffol and Company Inc
Mission
FOR 45 YEARS BARGEMUSIC CONTINUES TO BE DEDICTED TO ENHANCING THE CULTURAL LIFE OF NEW YORK CITY BY PRESENTING CONCERTS YEAR ROUND MAKING THE ENTIRE CANON OF CHAMBER MUSIC ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE IN A UNIQUE FLOATING CONCERT HALL.
Program accomplishments
- In its 47th season Bargemusic continued to provide opportunities for many unique voices active in NYC and globally and a special experience for the community and NYC visitors. All concerts took place on the Barge and at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse with magnificent views of the Manhattan skyline and a seating capacity of 74. In FY24 Sept 1, 2024 August 31,2025 Bargemusic presented more than 100 concerts in 75 programs including 90 Admission Free concerts. Programs included:The ECLECTIC SERIES featured composers Bach, Kreisler, Bacewicz, Harmon, Ysae, Beethoven, Chopin, Muczynski, Bolcom, Ravel, Schumann, Bansal, Ferneyhough, Liang, Taylor, Brahms, Boulanger, Massenet, Kapustin, Shostakovich, and performers included the Horszowski Trio, Kinga Augustyn, Daniel Schlosberg, Thomas Mesa, Ilya Yakushev, Aaron Larget-Caplan, Adam Tendler, and others in a series of concerts combining new & master works. THE HERE & NOW SERIES included concerts throughout the season, including the Labor Day Festival & a Korean-American composers series, and regularly featured women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA artists and composers. It presented works by composers Wheeler, Taylor, Huebner, Schnyder, Regan, Hagen, Ueno, Hoffman, Piazzolla, Texu Kim, Juri Seo, Kyong Mee Choi, Hee Yun Kim, Leo Chang, Matthew Pellegrino and others, performed by David Taylor, Gregor Huebner, Daniel Schnyder, DUO YUMENO, Joel Hoffman, TRIO AGORA, Salley Koo, Dawn Dongeun Wohn, Daniel McDonough, Alexander Solomon. THE MASTERWORKS SERIES included quartets quintets, and concerti of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Dohnanyi, Wieniawski, Sarasate, and solo, duo, trio, and Italian music festival, and chamber works by Bach, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Verdi, Kreisler, Gershwin, George Walker, Bartok, Haydn, Dvoak, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Brahms, Handel, Joplin, Cicoria, Bruckner, Rubenstein, Tchaikovsky, Irene Britton Smith, Barber, Harrison, Shostakovich, Ives, Dallapiccola, Petrassi, castelnuovo Tedesco, Morricone, Clementi, Donizetti, Rossini, Puccini, Sgambati, Cherubini, Mencarini, Caetani, Omizzolo, Scelsi, Rebora, Lombardi, Busoni, Casella, Malipiero, Giustini, Rota, Masi. Performers included Jeffrey Swann, Mark Peskanov, Yuliya Gorenman, Olga Vinokur, Miranda Cuckson, Doris Stevenson, Edward Arron, Jeewon Park, Christopher O'Riley, Sophia Agranovich, Maureen Volk, Alexandra Joan, Vincent Balse, Asiya Korepanova, Semplice Players, Nicholas Tzavaras, Rita Sloan, Amadi Azikiwe, Wendy Sutter, Blair McMillen, Joel Sachs, Roberto Prosseda,Carlo Alberto Bacchi, Francesca Antonucci, Fracesco mencarini, Andrea Mariani, Alessandra Ammara, Pietro Vaccari, Alessandro Riccardi, Adriano Murgia, Alessio Masi. THE ADMISSION FREE CONCERT SERIES included programs from all Bargemusic series and included a Q & A session with the musicians. Bargemusic offered discounted and free tickets to seniors, students, and children through January 2025 and all admission free programming subsequently. Bargemusic's programming continued to regularly feature artists and composers from traditionally underrepresented groups such as LBGTQIA, BIPOC, and persons with disabilities. Bargemusic continued to host and participate in publicly accessible music recitals for the Patricia Robinson Music School which serves African American students in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn and host recitals for the Brooklyn Music Teachers Guild. Online, Bargemusic continued to livestream free concerts to homebound Holocaust survivors in the New York area and across the US.Expenses $897,885
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in August, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | August 31, 2026 | January 15, 2027 | Not due yet |
| 2024 | August 31, 2025 | January 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | August 31, 2024 | January 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 11-2451587
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1978
- Accounting year ends
- August
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A680)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $578,748
- Income (IRS master file)
- $740,285
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | August 2025 | $740,285 | $928,274 | $578,748 | XML |
| 990 | August 2024 | $706,059 | $757,152 | $794,537 | XML |
| 990 | August 2023 | $623,317 | $733,480 | $862,866 | XML |
| 990 | August 2022 | $620,885 | $719,130 | $895,143 | IRS |
| 990 | August 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | August 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 11-2451587).
Questions about BARGEMUSIC LTD
- What is the EIN of BARGEMUSIC LTD?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of BARGEMUSIC LTD is 11-2451587.
- Is BARGEMUSIC LTD tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1978.
- Are donations to BARGEMUSIC LTD tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does BARGEMUSIC LTD file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of BARGEMUSIC LTD due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending August 31, 2026) is due January 15, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did BARGEMUSIC LTD last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended August 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of BARGEMUSIC LTD?
- The 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025 names Mark Peskanov.
- Who are the officers and directors of BARGEMUSIC LTD?
- The 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025 lists 7 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $246,115 (MARK PESKANOV, EXECUTIVE/ARTISTIC DIRECTO).
- How much revenue does BARGEMUSIC LTD have?
- On its 990 for the year ended August 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $740,285, expenses of $928,274 and total assets of $578,748 at year end.
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