Middleton Band Boosters

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871421216
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Middleton, WI, USA
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles

Reported finances

Revenue
$132,712
Expenses
$82,114
Assets
$105,503

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tracy Lee (Co-President)
  • Julie Jodlowski (Co-President)

People named in this filing

  • Tracy Lee (Co-President)
  • Julie Jodlowski (Co-President)
  • Martha VanBendegom (Treasurer)

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

The purpose of the Middleton Band Boosters Inc. is to raise funds and provide support for the Middleton High School Band program working in concert with the band directors to ensure that every student musician in curricular and co-curricular band activities achieves a meaningful musical experience.

What it reported doing in 2025

Marching Band - provision of equipment materials supplies and instruction for the Middleton High School Marching Band. Direct beneficiaries approx 225 students. Indirect beneficiaries approx 15,000 spectators and community members throughout the season.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - 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: 42
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 33.6%; rating input score 34
  • Program expense ratio: 54.3%; rating input score 54

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 38.1%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -104.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 33.6% of revenue deployed · 54.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $45K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.