Dmv Music Academy

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843095247
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Hyattsville, MD, USA
Phone
2025534885
Rating
49
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$105,231
Expenses
$99,260
Assets
$40,610
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Larry Williams (Artistic Director)
  • Cheryl Nkeba (Education Director)
  • S Kathryn Allen (Board Chair)

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

The DMV Music Academy exists to expose, engage, and enrich young people through the transformative power of music.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2023, we became a multisite operation - expanding to four locations throughout the DMV region (Hyattsville, Takoma Park, DC, and Baltimore) serving 87 students. We have also expanded our school year programming as we started weekly drumline programs at 4 different DC Public Schools serving over 112 students weekly. This year, we added a K-8 school in Baltimore City and are currently in discussions with potential donors to expand the number of schools we serve in DC and Baltimore in the 2024-25 school year. Additionally, we launched a wellness drumming initiative for veterans in the DC metro region in partnership with the Department of Veteran Affairs for Prince George's County, Maryland.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

MIXED - 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: 23
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 22.2%; rating input score 22
  • Program expense ratio: 23.5%; rating input score 24

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -29.6% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 44.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 22.2% of revenue deployed · 23.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.