Jazz Education Abroad
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461259203
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Greeley, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9703309485
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,645
- Expenses
- $163,690
- Assets
- $123,777
- Liabilities
- $12,164
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GENE AITKEN (PRESIDENT)
- MARIANO ABELLO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DAVID GLENN (DIRECTOR)
- CHRISTINE GUTER (DIRECTOR)
- GENE AITKEN (PRESIDENT)
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
Jea's mission is to increase cultural, musical, and educational awareness through the teaching of american jazz to youth from different backgrounds and regions of the world, especially underserved youth in developing countries, refugees, and visually impaired youth.
What it reported doing in 2024
Jea holds music classes and camps that are attended by aproximately 600 or more students and teachers annually. Jea also offers tutorials and downloadable resources, along with sheet music, videos, mp3s and educational materials through it's ijazzmusic.com website and coordinates the distribution of numerous donated musical instruments throughout the world.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
STRONG - 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- 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: 14.6%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $164K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.