Great Bend Center for Music
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821699863
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Union, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2069314338
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $178,799
- Expenses
- $276,902
- Assets
- $139,782
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIN MARINACHE (PAST PRESIDENT)
- BRADLEY MILLER (President)
- JILL McKNIGHT (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MATTHEW MELENDEZ-BLEGEN (Director)
- ERIN MARINACHE (PAST PRESIDENT)
- HADLEY DANIELSON (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Great Bend Center for Music uses music as a tool for community development, advancing educational equity, social connection, and economic vitality in rural Mason County, Washington.Additional activities include community performances, workshops, and outreach initiatives that expand access to music education and cultural experiences across Mason County. These programs reinforce Great Bends mission to use music as a catalyst for connection, opportunity, and community identity.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sound Scholars Early Learning ProgramGreat Bends Sound Scholars program provides free, high-quality early childhood music education to preschool and early elementary students, with a focus on underserved and multilingual populations. Instruction integrates music literacy, language development, and social-emotional learning aligned with kindergarten readiness standards.During the year, the program served young learners through in-school and community-based instruction, including bilingual delivery in English and Spanish. Students developed foundational skills in rhythm, pitch, listening, and collaboration, while also strengthening early literacy and prosocial behaviors. This program directly addresses local early learning gaps and supports long-term academic and workforce readiness.
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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 46.7%; rating input score 47
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -54.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 32%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -30.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.4% of revenue deployed · 46.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.