Music in Urban Schools Inspiring Change
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455528747
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,965
- Expenses
- $115,726
- Assets
- $22,842
- Liabilities
- $11,331
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sarah Dupuis (Executive Director)
- Melissa Kanter (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Sarah Dupuis (Executive Director)
- Melissa Kanter (Board President)
- Garrett Beckman (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
MUSIC Inc provides tuition-free music programs for elementary and middle school students on Chicagos west side communities Our programming is offered during after-school hours and during the school day We serve 70 students ages 7 through 18 providing 2-4 hours of programming weekly providing every student with an instrument and supplies MUSIC Incs dual-emphasis on music and mentorship supports students success throughout childhood and adolescence Currently the organization provides 70 students with music education and mentorship through a continuum of programs across programming sites in Chicagos West Side In total MUSIC Inc engages 250 people each year including music students parents families and audiences attending concert
What it reported doing in 2024
St Agatha Community Center Music Program offers 55 students ages 7 -18 free lessons on their chosen instrument youth orchestra program and piano class fro 35 weeks during the year All students receive an instrument and all learning materials for free
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.1%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 65.7%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.1% of revenue deployed · 65.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.