Muse Sturgeon Bay Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923085865
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA
- Phone
- 9203332859
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Performing Arts Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $391,263
- Expenses
- $276,200
- Assets
- $121,253
- Liabilities
- $100
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY CIEPLUCH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAVID BELL (DIRECTOR)
- ERNEST BEUTEL (DIRECTOR)
- AVERY BURNS (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Muse sturgeon bay is a community music school and performance venue comprising five lesson rooms, a classroom, and performance hall that will seat over 200 people. And, muse is moreits a place for collaboration between different people, musicians and artistic disciplines; its a community resource that brings together local teachers and students; its a space where it is okay to make mistakes, and a space where its okay to be awesome. At the end of the day, muse is a huba central locationwhere those with different musical interests, abilities and skills can meet, learn from one another, inspire each other, and further the already incredible musical community that exists in door county.
What it reported doing in 2024
Music lessons and classes. Muse offers one-on-one lessons and group classes with local professional teaching musicians. This activity supports creating access to music education, often instruments or subjects not offered in public school music programs, while also supporting additional income to working musical artists and educators.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.7%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st 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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.4%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 47.7% of revenue deployed · 67.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $187K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 48/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.