Ebony Music Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871480486
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Kensington, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3013051980
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,000
- Expenses
- $1,500
- Assets
- $148,513
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AKILAH B KIDD (PRESIDENT)
- GENA FLYNN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AKILAH B KIDD (PRESIDENT)
- GENA FLYNN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DOROTHY GASPARDST CYR (TREASURER)
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 promote and preserve the rich heritage of African American music through education, performance, and community engagement.
EBONY MUSIC INC is an organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of African American music. The organization engages in educational programs, performances, and community outreach to celebrate and sustain this musical heritage. Its work serves diverse audiences and aims to foster appreciation and understanding of African American musical traditions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
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: 99%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 99.01; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 5 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.