Junkyard ATX

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991798050
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Austin, TX, USA
Phone
5125672638
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$70,352
Expenses
$49,135
Assets
$14,419
Liabilities
$7,619

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Michael Winningham (Executive Dir.)
  • MARSHA POVOSKLOVA (Director)
  • AARON DE LA GARZA (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Junkyard is committed to the mission of preserving resources for Austin based musicians and venue owners. We aim to remind everyone our city is defined by our songwriters, live bands, venue owners and the community they create. How do we protect and preserve our missing middle musicians amid an affordability crisis? Every city is like a Junkyard Rich in resources We have the answers.

What it reported doing in 2025

Junkyard is non profit organization providing resources to Austin musicians and venue owners that are battling an affordability crisis and displacement. Junkyard relies on the contributions of the community, grants and foundations to provide these resources to the Austin music community.

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
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 30.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -70.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 183.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K 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: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.