Modesto Suzuki Association
Legal name: Modesto Suzuki Assoc Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770026920
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2099969152
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,425
- Expenses
- $4,450
- Assets
- $59,098
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jana Taylor Hunn (Exec Director/CEO)
- Eppie Chung (President)
People named in this filing
- Jana Taylor Hunn (Exec Director/CEO)
- Eppie Chung (President)
- Anupa Harvey (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Music Education since 1975
What it reported doing in 2024
The purpose of the Modesto Suzuki Association is to provide music instruction and performance opportunities to children aged 3 - 18 years. MSA provides parent support to encourage families to work with their teacher to foster a positive learning environment for the musical child. MUSIC INSTRUCTION: Provided group lessons. MSA Provides scholarships to students planning to continue their education beyond high school. MSA provides scholarships to teachers in pursuit of additional training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.7%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 64.2%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.28; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.4% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 50.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K 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: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.