Center for New Music San Francisco Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461228251
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4152752466
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,860,429
- Expenses
- $4,184,831
- Assets
- $1,222,002
- Liabilities
- $650,823
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DONNA HILLIARD (Executive Dir.): $165,000 total reported compensation
- STEVEN RICE (PROGRAM MGR): $125,000 total reported compensation
- ANTWAN MATTHEWS (DIR OF YOUTH PRGMS): $100,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The center for new music foster contemporary music's growth by giving practicing artists access to professional resource and expertise and by providing them with opportunities for sharing knowledge and exploring new ideas.
What it reported doing in 2024
CODE TENDERLOIN: As a Black-led organization with lived experience supporting people with various transition needs, Seymour and Hilliard continue a mission of restoring dignity and creating pathways for economic well-being. Since 2014, Code Tenderloin continued a model of removing barriers that prevent people from gaining living wage income. Barriers include a wide range of issues like housing, addiction, childcare, digital literacy, job readiness skills, and specialized skills in coding and public health. Our job readiness program is our core program. We have transitioned over 6000 job-readiness graduates into internships, coding classes, secondary degrees, and full-time jobs while removing barriers to long-term careers. JRP is a 4-week program teaching basic job readiness skills like resume building, interview skills, and professional networking. Participants receive case managers that guide them through the program and support obstacles and barriers that get in the way. The objective is for JRP participants to start with JRP, graduate into our Pre Code Ramp program, Community Health Worker Program, or Ambassador Program to gain needed skills for long-term careers. - 12,500 people have been served in the last 12 months. - 86% of our participants graduate from Job Readiness Class. - With a 86% completion rate, 1200 participants have graduated from our Code Ramp Program. - 100% of our participants have a professional resume, or LinkedIn profile, have done mock interviews, and have received mentorship. - 87% of our participants place in jobs or higher education out of Code Tenderloin - Of those who place in jobs, 46% remain in the same job 12-months after graduating from Code Tenderloin. - Empowering Black Youth: Over the past two years, EBY has worked with three cohorts of Black students 13-24 within this timeframe, we have worked with a collective of 35 students as they complete 18 weeks of in-depth learning about public health, Black liberation, policy, sexual and reproductive health. By the end of each cohort, students develop multimedia content in short films, podcasts, and public health toolkits. - Opportunites For All: Throughout our summer program for Web Development and Robotics Code, Tenderloin works with a collective of over 200 students to gain skills in coding. By completing the program our students are trained to develop their websites, and our robotics cohorts learn different forms of AI to develop solutions for different industries related to tech and AI. - Ambassador program: our van runs nightly off hours (7p-3a) to transport vulnerable residents to hospitals, shelters, and other service providers. The team connects an average of 250 residents per month to services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 75% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $144.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $165K · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.