Cedar Valley Chamber Music Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
The primary exempt purpose of Cedar Valley Chamber Music (CVCM) is educational. CVCM uses the portability of small ensembles to perform chamber music in venues around the Cedar Valley community, in order to increase arts education in the Cedar Valley. CVCM showcases local and regional musicians performing diverse chamber music repertoire in intimate settings. CVCM is also dedicated to developing new audiences through education and community outreach.
- Income
- $58,361
- Spending
- $59,804
- Reserves
- 11.7 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 85%
- Highest pay
- $7,025, director
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (4)
- $39,471 spent. The annual Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival Season hosts the annual Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival in July. As an educational organization, CVCM engages the community through a one-week summer music festival comprised of three (3) unique concerts. Each festival season revolves around a central theme meant to engage the public imagination. These low-cost concert events are performed at different venues where artists talk about and perform music from different times and places in world history. In 2024, 268 people attended these concerts in various community venues.
- $11,043 spent. CVCM has a strong outreach component to its mission that is based primarily on low-income, age and location. Each year CVCM offers several free community concerts to the general public in Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa, and in surrounding rural Iowa communities. CVCM also engages area youth through concerts in area schools, libraries and through its annual string camp for youth in grades 7-12. Lastly, CVCM has a continuing partnership with several area retirement communities and conducts regular free outreach performances for retirees and assisted living members of the Cedar Valley Community.In 2024, 8 outreach concert performances were given, and 325 individuals attended these concerts.
- $6,333 spent. For the past five years, CVCM has offered a one-week day camp to area instrumental string and woodwind players that teaches fundamentals of chamber music and offers technique classes. Student participants receive daily coaching, interact with professional musicians, and perform for their parents and relatives at the end of the string camp week. The string camp hosted 17 students in 2024.
- $2,957 spent. During times of the year apart from the one-week summer music festival, CVCM also provides a variety of musical offerings to the community to further increase arts awareness in the Cedar Valley. In 2024, 3 such events took place:1. A free Valentine-themed concert in February, given at a local center, which attracted 70 attendees.2. A concert in a downtown business in June, which suggested a free will offering and attracted 18 attendees, and3. A house concert in a private residence in November, which required a ticket for a small fee, and attracted 21 attendees.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated November 6, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since February 2008.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated November 4, 2026.
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