American Guild of Musical Artists
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 130431720
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122653687
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,526,995
- Expenses
- $6,770,084
- Assets
- $17,360,943
- Liabilities
- $1,374,448
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
117 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER WALLACE (FORMER WESTERN REGION VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANTUAN BYERS (DANCERS VICE PRESIDENT)
- KATHARINE GOELDNER (NEW YORK REGION VICE PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN AUGUST (STAGING STAFF VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANDRES GARCIA (EASTERN & SOUTHERN REGION VICE PRESIDENT)
- CAMEO HUMES (MIDWESTERN REGION VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFFREY BOYD (NATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $379,458 total reported compensation
- DON CAVANAUGH (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $260,619 total reported compensation
- JOHN WARD (MIDWEST COUNSEL): $260,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance, foster, promote and benefit all those concerned with the field of music, concert, recital, dance, oratorio and opera; to secure and protect their rights; to secure united action for the common good and to prevent and abolish abuses; to advise and counsel them in any and all matters pertaining to their employment; to assist them in securing just and equitable contracts, agreements, working conditions and minimum compensation from employers, contractors, agents, managers, impresarios, and others connected with the musical profession; to secure proper legislation affecting their welfare and professions and to bargain collectively on behalf of its members and to deal with employers, contractors, managers, agents, impresarios and others whose activities affect the members, concerning grievances, standard contractual relationships, minimum compensation and conditions, and concerning all related and collateral abuses that may affect the welfare and obligations of its members.
What it reported doing in 2025
To assist members in securing just and equitable contracts, agreements, working conditions and minimum compensation from employers. Number of members serviced was approximately 7,600.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.56; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 83 of 83 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $379K · 117 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $349K reported
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.