D Cipher
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842215252
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,554
- Expenses
- $91,750
- Assets
- $15,061
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dominique Campbell (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Dominique Campbell (Executive Director)
- Sonyah Cox (Artist + Programs Director)
- Wayne Ramocan (Operations 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
D.Cipher is a music mastermind collective and organization that serves Detroits community of musicians through shared learning, resources, and collaboration, and uplifts and celebrates Detroits musical legacy and emerging musical talent by bringing live music directly to Detroit residents. D.Cipher provides musicians with the resources and information they need to thrive and grow their careers in Detroit, while regularly connecting Detroits broader community to live music in engaging ways through hosting public live music events and public professional development workshops for musicians. All of our programming is held throughout Detroit, Michigan, and free to the public.
What it reported doing in 2024
Capacity Building: During FY2023, we were able to provide stipends to our immediate team of 3 who facilities and all organizational programming, development, outreach, and strategy. We were also able to bring on two support people to help with our audio/visual needs for our community music programs and capture content to document our programming throughout the year. We captured/created an estimated 500+ pieces of audio, photo, and video content, available for musicians to use and leverage for future opportunities. We were also able to purchase some key music equipment to enhance our program offerings for the musicians we work with.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 100.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.