Music & Youth Initiative
Legal name: Music and Youth Initiativeinc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202767066
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Needham, MA, US
- Phone
- 6176808490
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,493
- Expenses
- $243,668
- Assets
- $406,872
- Liabilities
- $12,170
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY EICHHORN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARK DUFFY (DIRECTOR)
- RICHARD EICHHORN (DIRECTOR)
- TOM HAMILTON (DIRECTOR)
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
We create accessible, sustainable, high-quality music programs so every teen can experience the power of music.
What it reported doing in 2025
Music and youth initiative was founded in 2005 to partner with youth development organizations serving under-resourced urban communities. We provide each partner with multi-year funding, equipment grants, and extensive program support to help them create and sustain a "music clubhouse", which they integrate into their overall program offerings. We also provide funding and program support for "catalyst grants" for new or existing innovative programs that use music as a vehicle for youth development for organizations that may not have the space or staffing required for a music clubhouse. We support after-school programs focused on tweens and teens, designed to be safe places for young people to not only explore their musical interests, but more importantly use music as a vehicle to understand and express their thoughts and emotions, and develop life skills as they move toward adulthood. These programs are led by a professional musical staff with strong youth development skills who are dedicated to helping all participants find their voice. The programs are intentionally self-directed, encouraging teens to play the music they are interested in and supporting their efforts to learn as much musically as they desire. In addition to a wide array of instruments such as guitars, drums, and keyboards as well as with state of-the art recording hardware and software to attract today's teens who are interested in writing and producing their own music.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 99% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -339.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.67; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $236K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 10 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.