Bruce Arnold Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 464779654
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2014–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location: Flushing, NY, USA
Phone: 9174761264
Rating: 34
Verdict: REVIEW
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Reported finances

Revenue: $359
Expenses: $359
Assets: $0
Liabilities: $998

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

Bruce Arnold (President)

People named in this filing

Bruce Arnold (President)

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

The Mission of the Bruce Arnold Foundation is to share the System with students and teachers across the country through workshops, camps and publications. In addition, it is our mission to collect and curate successful music teaching methods from all sources and integrate them into the System, forever improving upon it.

What it reported doing in 2025

Made music educational materials available to students of lower income

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 0
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 28
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd 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: -24.5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -32.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -32.7% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 1 filed schedules
Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
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 0/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.