Evelyn Barnes
Plan Administrator & Plan Sponsor
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- Full Name
- Evelyn Barnes
- Title
- Chief Financial Officer (current). Previously, at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, she was the organization's CFO and served as the named "Plan Administrator / Plan Sponsor" of its employee benefit plans.
- Firm
- New England Conservatory of Music (current, since June 2024); formerly Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Firm Type
- Nonprofit / arts & cultural institution (NOT an angel investment firm — the stub's "Angel Investors" label is unsupported)
- Investment Stage
- Not applicable — no evidence of any startup/seed investing activity
- Check Size
- Not applicable / unknown — no evidence of investment activity
- Target Company Profile
- Not applicable — she is a nonprofit finance executive, not a company investor
- Sector Focus
- Nonprofit financial management — arts, education, and community-development organizations
- Geographic Focus
- Greater Boston, Massachusetts (with earlier career in Los Angeles)
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Background
Evelyn Barnes is a long-tenured nonprofit and arts-organization finance executive based in Boston. Since June 2024 she has served as Chief Financial Officer of the New England Conservatory of Music, where she is listed as the Business Office contact for financial statements. Immediately before that she was CFO of Madison Park Development Corporation, a Boston community-development organization, and earlier she served as Chief Financial Officer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra — the role that produced the bso.org email and the "Plan Administrator & Plan Sponsor" designation in the source data.
Her earlier career includes senior finance leadership at several large mission-driven organizations: Executive Vice President and CFO of City Year, Inc. (the national education-focused service nonprofit), CFO and Treasurer of The Community Builders, Inc. (an affordable-housing developer), and leadership roles at the YWCA Boston and, in Los Angeles, at The Midnight Mission and the Los Angeles Community Design Center. She has been recognized by the Boston Business Journal with a "CFO of the Year" award for her nonprofit finance work.
Academically, public profiles indicate she holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Classics from Boston University, with additional education associated with Trinity University. Her professional reputation is built on financial management, strategic planning, and organizational turnaround in complex nonprofit settings — not on venture or angel investing.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- No public investment thesis exists. Evelyn Barnes is not, based on available sources, an angel investor or venture investor, and no stated thesis, check size, or sector preference for startup investing could be found.
- Her professional "focus" is fiduciary and operational stewardship of nonprofit finances: budgeting, audits, financial reporting, endowment/cash oversight, and administration of employee benefit and retirement plans.
- If approached on the assumption that she is a seed-stage angel, expect a mismatch — the underlying source record appears to have misclassified a nonprofit CFO as an investor.
Notable Investments
- None identified. No portfolio companies, deals, rounds, or startup investments associated with Evelyn Barnes were found in research. (Her "notable" professional accomplishments are organizational finance roles — BSO, City Year, The Community Builders, Madison Park, and NEC — rather than investments.)
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