For the Song Charitable Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332485774
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Reno, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7752418872
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $146,155
- Expenses
- $112,707
- Assets
- $106,785
- Liabilities
- $8,531
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stanford H Goodman (President, Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Stanford H Goodman (President, Treasurer)
- Lynn Goodman (Secretary)
- Nettie Oliverio (Independent Director)
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
To promote and provide support for touring musicians to play multiple private and public shows in Northern Nevada and, in future, other Mountain West communities. The music business model for lesser-known but nationally-touring and critically acclaimed artists has been severely impacted by streaming, making live performance the only realistic revenue anchor. Radius clauses and tight margins at financially-challenged public venues force superb artists to skip these markets OR to generate disappointing revenues that barely cover their costs. For the Song promotes FREE shows at private residential communities that then subsidize public venue offers -- delivering profitable multi-show visits in the community. Every dollar we generate for Artists before or doing every show goes to the artist, as we take on promotion, lodging, hospitality, production and artist curation via the fund, delivering great artistry that might not otherwise stop in communities of 200-500K population bases.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, we hosted 9 different outstanding Artist Visits and promoted 23 shows -- 14 in public venues subsidized by 9 private shows. Artists left with no costs for housing, production, hospitality or promotion AND received an average of $7444 in fees from private donations and public venue contracts, dwarfing previous stops in Reno. Additionally, we signed two private clubs in addition to The Club at ArrowCreek for 2026 -- Montreux and Rancharrah clubs. We have been on radio and television, been invited on multiple podcasts and will be "keynote" speaking at the regions' Club Manager's Association of America in mid-may. Our club partners see increased membership satisfaction and NO increase in costs due to For the Song's model. This year we plan for 13 artist visits and over 30 shows promoted. Please note that in prior years we ran operations through the Community Foundation of Northern Nevada -- their 990 would have reported on all 2024 and a few tests in 2023 -- all Revenues and Expenses went directly through the Community Foundation. For "Grants and Allocations," I added Hospitality and Housing ($11,729) to the number previously described by Artist. Production was handled in the "Contractors" number. Additional Direct Program Service Expenses: Show/Artist Promotion: $5386
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.7%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 5
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: 22.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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
- Where the money goes: 3.7% of revenue deployed · 4.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.