Dickinson Music Enrichment Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874212514
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Dickinson, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8326801931
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,670
- Expenses
- $50,931
- Assets
- $8,729
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles Marcus (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Charles Marcus (Executive Director)
- Sandra Lee (Director of Operations)
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
To provide free, high-quality music education and mentorship to underserved youth, fostering musical development, academic growth, and personal confidence, while promoting cultural enrichment and community engagement.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Dickinson Music Enrichment Center (TDMEC) provides free, high-quality music education to underserved youth in Dickinson and surrounding areas of Galveston County. Since its founding, enrollment has grown from 13 to 35 students, serving 4th grade through high school. TDMEC offers bi-weekly lessons for beginner and advanced students on multiple instruments and employs high school band section leaders as coaches and mentors to develop leadership skills. The organization established the Galveston County Youth Ensemble, structured into Junior, Advanced, and Artist levels, offering performance experience and blind-audition placement. Students perform in community concerts, cultural events, and annual celebrations, such as the National Native Heritage Month Celebration, fostering engagement and cultural enrichment. TDMEC provides instruments, instructional materials, and support for students transitioning into local ISD bands. The organization has expanded program reach through partnerships, fundraising initiatives including art guitar and fountain auctions, and is preparing a second branch in South Houston to serve additional students.
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 and revenue 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.7%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 83.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th 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 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.