Music Camps Wallowa Lake

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320264253
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
La Grande, OR, USA
Phone
5038306023
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Reported finances

Revenue
$183,204
Expenses
$171,916
Assets
$79,293
Liabilities
$17,295

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAWRENCE JOHNSON (President)

People named in this filing

  • LAWRENCE JOHNSON (President)
  • DAVE FELLEY (Director)
  • AMBER GERGER (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

To provide music camps for training middle and high school musicians. These camps are held in june and july.

What it reported doing in 2025

Music camps for students in grades 6 - 12; two week-long overnight in-person camps were held. Both were at capacity in attendance. These students received intense musical training with oustanding instructors, including master classes, along with theory, history, and rhythmic training. Students participated in like instrument ensembles, mixed instrument ensembles, and one on one lessons with artistic staff. The concert took place at the end of the week, with all students parcipating in multiple ensembles. For many students, this was a life-changing experience, and they will return to their school music programs capable of sharing new artistic and leadership skills.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.8%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $172K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.