Fusion School of Music
Legal name: Fusion School of Music Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831973284
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Tulare, CA, US
- Phone
- (559) 372-3118
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,802
- Expenses
- $85,782
- Assets
- $37,457
- Liabilities
- $3,610
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARTIN MORA (Director)
- LANELL GORZEMAN (Secretary)
- TRISHA RODRIGUES (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Develop and Equip Christian Musicians.
What it reported doing in 2025
Music lessons are given to local students of all ages. An annual recital program is presented at the end of the term. Music lessons are in the form of group and private lessons. Scholarships and financial aid is provided to those who cannot afford the cost. Equipment is rented out to students so they do not have to purchase their instruments.
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
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 - 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: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 57.9%; rating input score 58
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: 24%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 63.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 44% of revenue deployed · 57.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.