All Ages Music Portland Dba Friends of Noise

What it reported doing in 2024

Programming Highlights: *Hosted 21 concerts/events accessible to all ages, where artists were paid for their performances including annual events like Spring Break Fest, Masquerade of Madness, and our Icebreaker winter break concert. *Provided sound services for 125 client events, connecting youth sound engineers and/or youth artists with paid work *Co-Hosted 11 youth open mic events at different venues throughout Portland *Hosted 15 Sound Squad Supreme training days, where youth sound engineers get to explore new gear, ask questions, and meet other team members *Facilitated a tour for our youth sound engineers of Moda Center (a large convention center) to see the inner workings of large scale concerts and sports productions *Helped youth leaders produce 3 benefit shows *Produced Find Your Future Fest, a youth curated career fair including an all ages concert at the end *Released Rose City Rising II; our second intergenerational collaborative recording project featuring 5 youth emcees/bands. *Advocated for youth artists to perform (and be paid) at 3 major festivals in Portland during 2024: Waterfront Blues Fest, Pickathon and PDX Pop Now. This provided exposure to hundreds of audience members. *Hosted 2 teen sound engineering workshops, 1 protect your hearing workshop, and collaborated with other nonprofits on a music video workshop and a rock bank workshop series for middle schoolers *Provided work for a roster of 18 teen sound engineers *48 episodes of Friends of Noise Presents on XRAY.fm, a weekly radio show curated and hosted by youth DJs *Launched our summer residency program which pays 2 youth artists to create original music Organizational Growth: *Hired a new staff member; a venue and production manager *Signed the lease and submitted permitting applications in preparation for opening our all ages community arts venue in 2025 *Began a capital campaign to fund the renovation and new programming for our new all ages venue *Our work and impact was featured in 5 articles through local publications *Were chosen to steward the Elan Eichler Memorial Fund Collaborations with these partner orgs: Arts for Learning NW The Blueprint Foundation Depave Ethos Music Killian Pacific Live Wire My Voice Music Next Up Oregon Northwest Hardcore Fest Oregon Contemporary Arts Center Oregon Museum of Science and Industry PamCut Tomorrow Theatre Patricia Reser Center for the Arts PDX Pop Now! Pickathon Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts Portland State University Portland Trailblazers Portland Winter Ice Rink Pow Girls Media Education TVI Architects Waterfront Blues Fest Number of people served: -Audience: 2400 -Workshop Participants: 40 -Paid Artists: 300 -Paid youth sound engineers: 18 -Paid youth Djs: 6 -Paid Youth Interns: 3 -Paid Youth Graphic Designers: 3 -Youth Leaders Producing fundraiser events (unpaid): 5 1900 unique participants

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 68%; rating input score 68
• Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
• Fundraising efficiency: $50.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 14.1%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 34.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings