Hot Rhythm Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455171078
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Pflugerville, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4409152633
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Council/Agency
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $135,891
- Expenses
- $119,572
- Assets
- $66,010
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Reed (President)
People named in this filing
- Jennifer Reed (President)
- Tabitha Robinson (Treasurer)
- Shannon Butler (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
Carrying out educational and cultural activites
What it reported doing in 2025
Hot Rhythm Holiday - Provided education of jazz dance and musical styles of the early 20th century to students in an annual weekend event. National instructors were available to students. Benefited 350 people
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
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 12%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $127K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.