Music for Movements Inc Dba Bye Bye Plastic USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871256019
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- West Hollywood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3322077565
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,482
- Expenses
- $82,753
- Assets
- $15,777
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- TAL FINNEY (CHIEF FINANC)
- VIVIE-ANN BAKOS (CHIEF EXECUT)
- JODI LEVI (SECRETAY)
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
At music for movements inc (doing business as bye bye plastic USA), our mission is to eliminate single-use plastics from the music industry. We harness the unifying power of musichumanitys strongest social connector to spark positive change and inspire a global movement.by driving the abolition of plastic use within the music scene, we catalyze a ripple effect that reaches far beyond the stage. This wave of impact fosters mindset shifts, encourages sustainable practices, and delivers tangible benefits to communities, ecosystems, and the planet at large. From local residents to wildlife and natural habitats, every living being gains from the reduction of plastic pollution in their environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our program service accomplishments were achieved by engaging every stakeholder in the music ecosystem-starting with artists as influential voices-to better reach music audiences and event organizers alike. Through tailored, actionable steps for each stakeholder, we drive meaningful change: from community-based plastic clean-ups, to empowering artists with plastic-free advocacy tools, to providing organizations and music industry professionals with practical guidance on the most effective plastic-free solutions. Our mission is to spark lasting behavioral change by combining knowledge sharing with culturally relevant, artist-led advocacy
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 60% for direct work, and 40% for grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -94.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.