James Burton International Guitar
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 522447991
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Shreveport, LA, USA
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,719
- Assets
- $56,347
- Liabilities
- $11,755
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES BURTON (President & CEO)
- LOUISE BURTON (Vice President)
- MEREDITH JOHNSON (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- JANIE LANDRY (Chairman)
- JAMES BURTON (President & CEO)
- J LARRY PORTER (Treasurer)
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
Support for Music Education in Public Schools.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization has purchased over 4000 guitars and delivered them to particapating Middle & High schools in Louisiana and other states. The guitars went to needy children who were encouraged to participate in the Little Kids Rock music education program. In addition, educational materials for the children and the music teachers were distributed.The local school board recognized the organization for its efforts to bring music education back into the school environment. Many individual stories were relayed to the organization telling of great improvements in students attitudes and performance in other class settings.In 2007 the Festival & Foundation expanded its program of giving guitars to Hospital programs dedicated to the care of children. Guitars have been purchased and donated to the Shriner's Childrens Hospital and to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. This new outlet to programs being sponsored by these hospitals is helping to enhance the atmosphere of cure and recovery for the children they serve.
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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 1
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -21.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.