Chamber Music Madness Dba Chamber Music Guild
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912130303
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2063573009
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,339
- Expenses
- $154,089
- Assets
- $203,318
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHARON WONG (PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD)
- MELET WHINSTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JUSTIN KURYS (EXOFICIO- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SHARON WONG (PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD)
- MELET WHINSTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PAMELA MCDONALD (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
Chamber music madness dba chamber music guild is a nonprofit organization that provides educational and inspirational chamber music experiences for youth and adults in the pacific northwest. We foster life-long learning and an ever-expanding community of chamber music players.
What it reported doing in 2025
Masterworks concert series: our masterworks concert series presents the skyros quartet with performances of the most loved repertoire composed for the string quartet paired with pieces we believe audiences of all ages will come to love just as much once they get to know them. The goal is to share musical experiences with youth and adults and provide access to these experiences that might otherwise not be accessible to them for financial or geographical reasons. We are expanding this offering in 2026-2027 to king county venues to increase our reach, as well as offering tickets from $0(youth)-$10(adults).institute: the chamber music guild institute (cmgi) provides high-quality coaching, master classes, and performance opportunities for young musicians they would not be able to have in school or other community programs, helping them explore new repertoire, develop their personal musicality, and learn useful life skills like organization, time management, and working cordially with others. Led by the skyros quartet, a professional ensemble, the institute provides a unique curriculum that concentrates on musical growth, collaboration, and artistry. Students also have the opportunity to perform and do their own outreach to their community, helping to focus the importance and relevance of music in our daily lives. Masterclasses and student performances are free and open to the public.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.7%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 58.8%; rating input score 59
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: 12.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.7% of revenue deployed · 58.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.