Instruments for Inspiration
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883896366
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Franklin, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6154225706
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,242
- Expenses
- $98,807
- Assets
- $57,292
- Liabilities
- $321
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVEN CADE (PRESIDENT)
- KELLEE CADE (CEO)
People named in this filing
- STEVEN CADE (PRESIDENT)
- KELLEE CADE (CEO)
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
Our mission is to bring hope, healing, and encouragement through the power of music. Giving guitars reaches people who are facing some of lifes hardest moments, including those experiencing homelessness, brokenness, loss, abuse, addiction, or neglect, as well as children without parents, low-income students, at-risk youth, and veterans. By donating guitars and sharing live music experiences, we remind people that they are seen, valued, and not forgotten. Music becomes a bridge that lifts spirits, rebuilds confidence, and inspires new beginnings. We also partner with shelters, youth programs, and community organizations to raise awareness and support for the individuals they serve. Our goal is simple: to use music as a tool of love, hope, and restoration, helping every person we reach rediscover their worth and purpose. Homelessness in america is a serious problem, but together we can make a positive impact through music. Studies have shown that playing an instrument can relieve stress,
What it reported doing in 2025
Bring hope, healing and encouragement through the power of music to those experiencing homelessness, brokenness, loss, abuse, addiction, or neglect, as well as children without parents, low-income students, at-risk youth, and veterans.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- 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: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.