Jazz Wahi Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842177708
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7814548509
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,058
- Expenses
- $42,683
- Assets
- $49,507
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Kross (Managing Director. Board President)
People named in this filing
- Mark Kross (Managing Director. Board President)
- Louise Rogers (Artistic Director.)
- John Albin (Board Secretary)
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
Promoting jazz performance and music education in Washington Heights, NYC. Our mission is to bring jazz music to a local audience, and to expand that audience through performances and educational opportunities in accessible neighborhood settings, inviting community members of all backgrounds to appreciate jazz as a living, breathing, evolving tradition.
What it reported doing in 2024
Jazz in Bennett Park. April - October, expenses reflect period of April-May. Free, weekly outdoor performances and jam sessions in a neighborhood park. This program was started during COVID and continued because of neighborhood benefit and demand. Each week sees an average of 75 people, including many families and children, enjoying music payed by 8-10 musicians.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.2%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 40.8%; 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: 38.2%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.2% of revenue deployed · 40.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 25/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.