More Than Music Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270388096
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Littleton, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7202849851
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $451,416
- Expenses
- $486,835
- Assets
- $5,692
- Liabilities
- $33,995
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David LeMieux (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- David LeMieux (Executive Director): $110,922 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of More Than Music Inc. is to challenge audiences to listen for and live out their callings to serve others - using music presented in ensemble community as model and catalyst.
What it reported doing in 2025
School Assembly Programs. At the Table with Dr. King is a multi-media assembly program and concert production which uses live music video and visual images from the Civil Rights Movement Era to challenge students to discover and live out their callings in their communities. The performances dramatize the kitchen table moment in Dr. Kings life using it as model and catalyst for what can happen when one person hears the call to serve his or her community overcomes obstacles and lives it out. The video version of the program captured the day before lockdown began in 2020 continues to impacted thousands of viewers lives across the world through partnerships with the Mizel Museum the US State Department Stanford Universitys Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Research and Education Institute the NAACP and schools and community organizations across the US. Its companion program available for schools to present in alternating years is called The Music of Movements and focuses on helping its attendees find their constructive voice examining historical examples to extrapolate how they can make their voices matter. In FY 25-26 MTM served 51,208 attendees through live film and online programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 66% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 5.97; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $438K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.