Central Texas Musical Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871366422
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Austin, TX, USA
Phone
5127514911
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Symphony Orchestras

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,604
Expenses
$53,994
Assets
$68,517
Liabilities
$1,658

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DANNY SNYDER (PRESIDENT)
  • JIMMY DIRIENZO (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • TREY THOMPSON (MUSIC AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR): $4,470 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide an opportunity for musicians to utilize and develop their skills in a quality professional environment; teach the technical & historical aspects of music performances to audiences; perform for the benefit & education of central tx audiences; and assist other organizations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Bluebonnet philharmonic orchestra (bpo) is the performing orchestra for this organization. In 2025, bpo performed 8 concerts at various venues in local commmunities. These concerts were performed at outdoor parks and indoor venues on either a saturday evening or a sunday afternoon. In april 2025 ctmas music & artistic (m&a) director announced he would not be returning in the fall and the organization began its search for a successor. For the first half of 2025, ctma renewed the conducting fellowship program that it started in 2023 but placed it on hold while it searches for a new m&a director. To increase audience size, ctma continued advertising methods started in 2024 & bpo partnered with round rock community choir for 2 december concerts including providing santa for one concert and frozen characters ana & elsa at the other one. All concerts are free to the public. Ctma has worked with other similar orgns by loaning/renting equip & consulting with them.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 74
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $4K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.