American Federation of Musicians of the Us & Canada
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 390477315
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4143629800
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $162,329
- Expenses
- $167,965
- Assets
- $32,485
- Liabilities
- $19,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT LEVINE (President)
- KIRK FERGUSON (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- ROBERT LEVINE (President)
- KIRK FERGUSON (Vice President)
- RICHARD TREMARELLO (Secretary/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 Milwaukee Musicians Association, Local 8 of the American Federation of Musicians is a labor organization representing union musicians including four collective bargaining agreements. Its function is to unite the professional musicians within its jurisdiction who are eligible for membership without discrimination, regardless of race, religion, creed, color, political orientation, citizenship, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, or family status. To organize the professional musicians in its jurisdiction and to provide services to such organized professional musicians. To secure improved wages, hours, working conditions, and other economic advantages for the professional musicians in membership through collective bargaining and to establish terms and conditions for equitable and fair dealing among its members.
What it reported doing in 2025
To represent the interests of professional musicians in the Milwaukee area through collective bargaining with employers, contract administration, and job referral services. To unite the professional musicians within its jurisdiction who are eligible for membership without discrimination, regardless of race, religion, creed, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, or family status. To secure improved wages, hours, working conditions, and other economic advantages for the professional musicians in membership through collective bargaining and to establish terms and conditions for equitable and fair dealing among its members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.