Jazz BeCuzz Arts Group Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825513927
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,485
- Expenses
- $71,500
- Assets
- $28,600
- Liabilities
- $14,065
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Ashanta Tolliver (Executive Admin)
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
Jazz BeCuzz Arts Groups primary exempt purpose is to provide accessible engaging and culturally enriching fine arts and performing arts programming to the community particularly underserved youth and senior citizens through education expression and intergenerational collaboration. As a 501c3 public nonprofit the organization fosters creative development and community cohesion by offering music visual arts dance literary arts and interdisciplinary arts experiences that educate inspire and empower individuals and families of all backgrounds.
What it reported doing in 2024
**Tuesday Night Jam is a weekly live music event hosted by Jazz BeCuzz Arts Group that brings together students local musicians vocalists and music lovers for an evening of improvisation collaboration and community. Held in an intimate and creative setting the jam session encourages artistic expression across generations and skill levels fostering a supportive space for both seasoned performers and emerging talent.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 19
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.7%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 18.2%; rating input score 18
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: -2.9%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.7% of revenue deployed · 18.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.