Juneau Alaska Music Matters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462843219
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-PF 2021
- Location
- Juneau, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9075231022
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $322,884
- Expenses
- $304,447
- Assets
- $169,293
- Liabilities
- $30,902
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Catherine Wilkins (President)
- Stephanie Hoag (Vice President)
- Meghan Johnson (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Catherine Wilkins (President)
- Stephanie Hoag (Vice President)
- Lynne Johnson (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Juneau Alaska Music Matters (JAMM) is in 2 Title 1 elementary schools and 1 other elementary school providing in classrooms and afterschool programs. In the middle school and high school we provide teacher assistant training and private lessons at no cost to the students or their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
JAMM provided a tuition free summer Bluegrass Music half-day camp for students entering 4-8th grade. Students were introduced or learned different instruments and styles during the camp. Teaching artists were bought to Juneau to work with both the students and JAMM teachers in the Juneau area. The camp spends part of the day focusing on individual improvements on various instruments and the other part of the day on ensembles, learning to listen to each other and play and sing as an ensemble. The camp received grants, individual donations and sponsorships to offset the cost including Artful Teaching from Margaret A Cargill Philanthropy, Alaska State Council on the arts Artist in School grant, City and Borough of Juneau Major grant and the youth and education fund through the Juneau Community Foundation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $209K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.