Amazing Place Music Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832167578
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Whitefish, MT, USA
- Phone
- 6153510802
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,966
- Expenses
- $128,805
- Assets
- $47,744
- Liabilities
- $26,051
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DON HARVELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL ELDRED (EXECUTIVE DI)
- DON HARVELL (PRESIDENT)
- JODIE HETHERINGTON (TREASURER)
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
The organization produces and presents music and live performances that enhance the community and inspire the residents of flathead valley.
What it reported doing in 2025
Apm shares the magic of the northwest rocky mountains while hosting award- winning musicians from around the world. In the fall of 2002, apm produced its first concert combing local musicians with nationally recognized talent, working together in the "season of soul" concert in november. We presented the "creative success series" featuring visiting artists in a free, q&a setting for community artists and interested parties. Apm was involved in our first whitefish community foundation great fish challenge fundraiser event, raising support and awareness in the community. In 2023, amazing place music continued its concert programming, producing and presenting music in live performances that enhance the community and inspire the residents of flathead valley. Apm shares the magic of the northwest rocky mountains while hosting award-winning musicians from around the world. In 2025, amazing place music continued its concert programming, producing and presenting music in live performances that enhance the community and inspire the residents of flathead valley. Apm shares the magic of the northwest rocky mountains while hosting award-winning musicians from around the world. In 2025, apm presented 3 "on the stage performances. In the fall, apm produced its fourth annual concert combining local musicians with nationally recognized talent, working together in the "season of soul 4.0" concert in november. We also presented the "creative success series" again, featuring the new musical the way way west in a first-ever apm concert presentation based on a reading/musical. Apm was involved in our fourth annual whitefish community foundation great fish community challenge, raising support and awareness in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.6%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
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: -4.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.6% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.