Infinite Music Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462959266
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Morro Bay, CA, USA
Phone
8052251899
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$313,134
Expenses
$148,386
Assets
$487,935
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • James Vanko (Program Coordinator/Board Member)
  • Joan Pedersen (Board Member)
  • Heidi Sealy (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Infinite Music is 501c3 nonprofit that provides underserved youth on California's Central Coast the opportunity to experience the transformative power of music through education, appreciation, and performance. Our goal is a future where all the youth we serve can achieve their limitless potential through music.

What it reported doing in 2025

*Group programs: Guadalupe Union School District (GUSD) Infinite Music provided our Makin' Music after school program to GUSD with seven music classes to over 450 elementary and middle school students in the music classes of Musical Explorers* (TK-2nd; *learning rhythm, movement, singing, dance and music elements); Choirs (3rd-4th grades); Beginning Ukulele (2nd - 4th grades); Modern Band (5th-6th Grades) and Beginning Guitar (7th-8th grades). Provided instruction throughout the academic school year. Group programs: * Paso Robles Unified School District Infinite Music provided our Makin' Music after school program with drumming and music explorers classes to six elementary schools in the Paso Robles Unified School District, serving four (6) different classes, reaching approximately 175 2nd-5th grade students. Provided instruction throughout the academic school year. Group programs:. Provided instruction throughout the academic school year. These three programs were funded by the school districts. * Santa Maria-Bonita Unified School District, "Camp Elevate" Summer Camp Infinite Music provided a three-week long intensive summer camp music curriculum, Monday-Friday, at one elementary school sites with one music teachers, teaching music classes for 75 TK-5th grade students in the music classes of Musical Theater, Musical Explorer's and Choir. This program was funded by the school district.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43.5%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $82.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

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: Limited
  • 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: 52.6%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.29; rating input score 71; 71st 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: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 40.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43.5% of revenue deployed · 83.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $124K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.