K&M Music School Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931427244
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,550
- Expenses
- $9,832
- Assets
- $1,003
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Adrienne Markworth (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Michael Dvoskin (Secretary)
- Adrienne Markworth (CEO)
- Evan Compton (CFO)
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
Our mission is to nurture a love of classical music and empower youth in our community to explore their creative potential through access to excellent music education. We provide customized training focused on quality over quantity, technique over accomplishment, and passion over prestige. Our goal is to inspire a lifelong appreciation for music's ability to enrich lives. We deliver a comprehensive and engaging 9 year music program that makes classical music accessible, exciting, and deeply enriching for young musicians.
What it reported doing in 2025
Teaching of music lessons
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 72.3%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 83.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 106.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 111.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 72.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.