Gospel Music Hymn Sing Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473156752
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Morristown, TN, USA
- Phone
- 4232313075
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $396,177
- Expenses
- $439,639
- Assets
- $128,830
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- JIM BRADY (DIRECTOR)
- RODNEY GRIFFIN (DIRECTOR)
- MARK TRAMMELL (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support our mission Join Us on our First-Ever Gospel Music Hymn Sing Cruise This November! Click on the photo for more information. Mark Trammell brings more than four decades of Christian Music Ministry experience to the Foundation, having served with legendary Gospel Music groups, including The Kingsmen, The Cathedrals, Greater Vision, and Gold City Quartet. In 2002, Mark founded Mark Trammell Ministries, and continues to travel almost 200 days every year with the Mark Trammell Quartet, as well as preaching in several revivals each year. Mark also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Quartet Convention. Rodney Griffin.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission of the gospel music hymn sing foundation is to preserve the art form and messages of congregational hymn singing, utilizing live performances, video and audio recordings and printed materials, to encourage the older generations, and to re-energize a younger generation to the greatness of classic hymns.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $440K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.