Meals for Music Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921863919
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Westport, CT, USA
Phone
2037706085
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Service Organizations and Activities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$198
Expenses
$687
Assets
$279
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Carolyn Miller (President/Founder)

People named in this filing

  • Carolyn Miller (President/Founder)
  • Corinne Thompson (Treasurer)
  • William Steeves (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

Meals For Music provides free meals to touring musicians.

What it reported doing in 2025

Meals For Music provided healthy, nourishing meals for approximately 60 touring musicians at 5 separate events in 2025. Beyond helping out financially for independent artists on tight budgets, nourishing meals can go a long way in providing comfort and encouragements when musicians are far from home. Despite our efforts, donations were not as plentiful in 2025. Meals given to musicians: $59 - Tipps and Obermiller, $29 - Joan Silver, $32 - Melissa Engleman, $244 - Tour For Life, $165 - Make Music Day Fairfield

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -247%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -25.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -104.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -65% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $529 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.