Amped Kids Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843742514
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Cleveland, GA, USA
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music

Reported finances

Revenue
$90,097
Expenses
$117,506
Assets
$33,293
Liabilities
$6,269

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • April Rooks (President)
  • Jason Sauls (Vice President)
  • Dave Craver (Past President)

People named in this filing

  • April Rooks (President)
  • Jason Sauls (Vice President)
  • Beth Swenson (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

Amped Kids Foundation was formed to assist foster adopted and at-risk youth in healing from trauma through music programs and therapeutics. Our goal is to provide a safe transformative outlet that improves mental and emotional health. In 2025 the Foundation impacted 295 youth providing over 1,600 free private music lessons to 111 enrolled students and conducting 12 songwriting workshops. Our mission focuses on healing; 100% of children reported that music acts as a calming outlet for expression and 95% showed improved behavior. Through private lessons band scholarships and music therapy sessions with licensed providers we create avenues for wellness and connection for children who have endured significant stress. Since 2018 we have impacted over 2,000 youth ensuring that those who lack stability receive the mentorship and consistency needed to grow and empower their lives through music.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program: Music Education & Mentorship Lessons & Scholarships: Amped Kids provides free ongoing private music instruction and scholarships to foster adopted and at-risk youth to foster consistency and emotional regulation. This program removes financial barriers to high-quality mentorship and long-term skill development. 2025 Accomplishments: Provided over 1,600 free private music lessons to 111 enrolled students. Metrics: 98% of students demonstrated significant progress in musical ability and improved focus. Scholarships: Awarded 6 Band Scholarships to help youth participate in collaborative musical environments.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 17
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.1%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 68

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: -30.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -51.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -53.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.1% of revenue deployed · 67.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.