Artysh Lab Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331231925
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Medford, MA, USA
- Phone
- 8572531072
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,112
- Expenses
- $7,878
- Assets
- $7,371
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Milos Bjelica (President)
People named in this filing
- Milos Bjelica (President)
- Marina Lazetic (Director)
- Alan Toda-Ambaras (Tresurer)
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
Artysh Lab Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to producing and presenting live classical music performances for babies, toddlers, and young children. The organizations mission is to enrich early childhood and family life through accessible, high-quality live music experiences and to promote cultural enrichment within the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Artysh Lab Inc. received a $5,000 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to produce and present free live classical music concerts designed specifically for babies and young children from immigrant and underserved communities in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These performances were held at accessible community venues and provided culturally enriching live music experiences for families who may not otherwise have access to classical music programming. The concerts featured professional musicians performing interactive classical repertoire in a welcoming and inclusive environment. The program was designed to enrich early childhood and family life, promote cultural participation, and remove financial and accessibility barriers for immigrant families. Persons benefited: Approximately 60 babies, young children, and their caregivers attended these free performances.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.1%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 63.5%; rating input score 63
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 47.9%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 87.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 154.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.1% of revenue deployed · 63.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.