MoRhythm School of Percussion
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330638769
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Carlsbad, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6199927090
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Dance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,022
- Expenses
- $79,142
- Assets
- $5,882
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Monette Marino (President)
- Elizabeth Howard (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Monette Marino (President)
- Elizabeth Howard (Vice President)
- Janet Thornton (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
Preserve and transmit musical and cultural traditions of West Africa and the Diaspora.
What it reported doing in 2025
Adams Avenue Street Fair Performance. Live public performance by Sabrosas Latin Orchestra, free outdoor community festival, typically draws over 50,000 to 80,000 attendees. Persons Benefited around 300 at the stage plus hundreds more passing by. Earned $1,000 income, used $650 from Grant Funds to supplement Artist Fees.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.5%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 14%; rating input score 14
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th 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: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.5% of revenue deployed · 14% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2011 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.