Minnesota Winds
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920503990
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Circle Pines, MN, USA
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,225
- Expenses
- $40,106
- Assets
- $69,041
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Meagan Bachmayer (Co-founder and Board Member and Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Meagan Bachmayer (Co-founder and Board Member and Executive Director)
- Katherine Bergman (Co-founder and Board Member and Artistic Director)
- Karrin Meffert-Nelson (Board Chair)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of Minnesota Winds is to advance and promote the art of concert band wind band music by presenting high-quality public performances supporting professional musicians commissioning new works for concert band and delivering music education activities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program Service Accomplishment Music Education: The organization delivered music education programming with the Minnesota Winds Trio as part of the YourClassical MPR Class Notes initiative. The ensemble traveled to schools across Minnesota presenting 20 educational performances that combined live music with storytelling and interactive engagement. These programs reached over 600 students in kindergarten through 12th grade supporting music education and increasing access to high-quality live performance experiences in school settings.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% 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
MIXED - 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.3%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 46.1%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 54%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.3% of revenue deployed · 46.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.