Four Strings at a Time Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923842023
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8587331779
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,305
- Expenses
- $48,562
- Assets
- $42,425
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH MAISEL (PRESIDENT/TR)
People named in this filing
- SARAH MAISEL (PRESIDENT/TR)
- CRAIG CHEE (CO-FOUNDER/D)
- CORY MAU (SECRETARY)
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
Enriching lives worldwide through music and ukulele.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide community music programs, concerts, educational workshops, and school-based ukulele instruction that promote hawaiian culture, music education, and intergenerational engagement locally and worldwide.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 74
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -76.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -64.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 45.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 74.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.