Famfrequency Productions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871368563
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5405215743
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $611,443
- Expenses
- $382,607
- Assets
- $777,773
- Liabilities
- $5,821
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jonathan Edwards (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Lanisha Otuonye (COO): $75,221 total reported compensation
- Jonathan Edwards (CEO): $74,221 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We empower young people with the skills resources and relationships needed to build streams of income through music.
What it reported doing in 2025
FamFrequency helped high-school aged music creatives with the skills knowledge and resources to establish sustainable careers in the music industry. Provided over 300 hours of programming through workshops and educational events. Focus on music production branding marketing financial literacy and personal development. Participants interned at local music studios media organizations. Guest speakers and mentors provided specialized lessons on music business topics. All participants reported increased confidence and competence in music production.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 42
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 34.5%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 55.1%; rating input score 55
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 110.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 73.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 107.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 34.5% of revenue deployed · 55.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $211K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 40 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX GrantsToDomesticOrgs column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.