Internal Creations Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471831397
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6462445819
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,771
- Expenses
- $152,922
- Assets
- $29,050
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATTHEW MAZANEK (PRESIDENT)
- RICK AUMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAHZEEL MONTES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JACOB PIORKOWSKI (LEGAL ADVISOR)
- JANE PARMEL (OPERATIONS ADVISOR)
- LINDA REAGAN (HR ADVISOR)
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
To provide free-of-charge classical guitar music programs for middle and high school students in New York city's underfunded and under-resourced schools and communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Virtual guitar ensemble and rock band: internal creations provided instruments and professional musicalinstruction to 5 high school students recruited from transit tech high school located in east New York, apredominantly african american/latinx community where the median household income is 50k per year. Ourrock band curriculum , which is rooted in learning covers and creating original music is bolstered throughencouragement and empowerment along with the opportunity to learn how to record their music. Internalcreation supports students when personal and musical challenges arise in order to accompany them on thejourney of learning. As our classical guitar programming, our mentorship component to achieve the life skillsremains the core of our programming. This program was provided by a guitar instructor
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.2%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 41.2%; rating input score 41
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.2% of revenue deployed · 41.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.