Association for Recorded Sound Collections Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237001161
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Annapolis, MD, USA
- Phone
- 8604660957
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Folk Arts
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,659
- Expenses
- $145,460
- Assets
- $279,881
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- YURI SHIMODA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- YURI SHIMODA (PRESIDENT)
- CURTIS PEOPLES (FIRST VICE-P)
- MATTHEW BARTON (SECOND VICE)
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
Founded in 1966, the association for recorded sound collections, inc. Is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. Arsc is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals. Archivists, libraries, and curartors representing many of the world's leading ausiovisual repositories participate in arsc alongside record collectors, record dealers, researchers, historians, discographers, musicians, engineers, producers, reviewers, and broadcasters.
What it reported doing in 2025
Awarded grants totaling 20,064. Maintained arsc website for public and member use. Continued as a member of ccaaa. Presented awards for publishing scholarly texts. Provided grants for travel and attendence to the 2025 annual conference in tulsa ok. Maintained arsc archives for scholarly research. Partly funded the cost of the conference workshop held in tulsa ok in may, 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71
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: -8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 71.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $103K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.