Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 420998308
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Davenport, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5633247170
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,515
- Expenses
- $217,480
- Assets
- $356
- 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
- James Beiderbecke (President)
People named in this filing
- James Beiderbecke (President)
- Kim Nickels (Treasurer)
- Dan Wilkinson (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
Support public interest in historic jazz music.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth jazz band that practices and plays publicly throughout the summer. Students are given scholarships at the end of the summer and given the opportunity to perform at the annual jazz festival. Roughly 12-15 students are in the band each year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 41.7%; rating input score 42
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: -116.4%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.3% of revenue deployed · 41.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 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: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.