Amateur Music Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821978159
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Phone
4155636164
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,515
Expenses
$46,789
Assets
$59,164

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Lolly Lewis (Executive Dir.)
  • Corty Fengler (Chairman)
  • Lisa Zadek (Secretary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We envision a world where music is an integral part of life, where all people experience the joy of playing, singing, and listening, and where access to music-making is available, encouraged, and celebrated. Amateur Music Network makes the world more musical by means of:**Connecting musicians with one another to share in active musical experiences**Creating educational and performance opportunities for musicians, both on our own and through partnerships with other arts organizations**Providing access to resources for musicians

What it reported doing in 2025

Amateur Music Network continues to build partnerships to present powerful workshops and events that center community music-making. Current workshop partners include Chamber Music San Francisco, California Symphony, Nebula Consort, Drew School, and The Marsh, and we are actively pursuing additional alliances.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 77

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 30.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.5% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65% of revenue deployed · 77.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.