Blind Notes Music Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932659016
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9199713003
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,006
- Expenses
- $21,455
- Assets
- $91,233
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary Elizabeth Mikels (President; Director)
People named in this filing
- Mary Elizabeth Mikels (President; Director)
- Juana Rubler Mikels (Secretary;Treasurer; Director)
- Katherine Arthur (Director)
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
Blind Notes Music, Inc. is a faith-based charitable organization that presents Christian and Inspirational musical performances and educational programs to encourage spiritual growth, promote music appreciation, and raise awareness of the experiences of individuals in the disabled community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Blind Notes Music presented 70 live musical performances and combined speaking events, including one pro bono performance to inspire, educate, and uplift audiences through music and motivational presentations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 72.5%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.25; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 26% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.