A D Cherry Early Childhood Music Outreach Program Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201903033
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Odenton, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3016039627
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,881
- Expenses
- $61,822
- Assets
- $29,239
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CLAIRE CHERRY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- STACY WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NEIL GILMAN (DIRECTOR)
- DR SHARLIE HAZEN (DIRECTOR)
- ALEKSEY KULIKOV (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our organization addresses the inequity in music education for young children living in disadvantaged communities throughout Maryland and dc. We bring free research-based, early childhood music education to underserved communities throughout the region. We currently serve 1,700 children annually, and 24 partner centers.
What it reported doing in 2024
With more than 17 years of success, our outreach program is proud to provide free music class programming in child development centers, pre-k programs and nursery schools in the Washington, d.c./baltimore metro areas. Specifically, we provide mobile, early childhood music classes to child development centers that serve low- income, marginalized diverse communities. These centers include head start centers, judy centers and other centers that serve under-resourced populations. Cherry children's music outreach offers these classes at no charge to the children, families or centers. We provide all instruments and props needed for our classes. Early childhood music education has long been known as an effective tool to enhance the learning of language, mathematics, memory skills and mnemonics, motor skills, and as a preparation for elementary school and a child's academic career . We conduct our programs in 19 head start, judy and child development centers in four Maryland counties- anne arundel, howard , montgomery and baltimore county- and in Washington dc. When possible, we also provide occasional scholarships to financially challenged children ages 5-16 for performing arts classes and camps.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.2%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -17.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.7% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.