Festival of New Trumpet Music Inc (Aka Font Music)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208308397
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7184965132
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,182
- Expenses
- $44,247
- Assets
- $9,241
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHANIE RICHARDS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAVE DOUGLAS (OFFICER)
- RICHARD JOHNSON (SECRETARY)
- SUZANNAH KINCANNON (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Font music was created to support trumpet music in all its forms and to provide a platform for emerging artists and creative pioneers. Font aims to expose the exciting range of current activity and to bring together disparate communities of musicians, students, and audiences. Font also gives back to the community by benefiting music programs in the New York city public schools.
What it reported doing in 2025
Supports the community by working in conjunction with music programs in public schools of New York city and presenting new trumpet music to the public.
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
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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- 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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -62.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th 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 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.