Music Neighbors Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812220781
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Nashville, TN, USA
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts, Culture, and Humanities

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,952
Expenses
$59,282
Assets
$17,646
Liabilities
$1,094

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jason Garriott (Executive Director)
  • Ellen Crowley (Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Jason Garriott (Executive Director)
  • Chelsea Garriott (Operations Director)
  • Ellen Crowley (Board President)

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 better the community through music and education. Our mission is to strengthen Nashvilles music community by providing local musicians a stable foundation to promote their music while educating and connecting the public to performing arts.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our program Play It Forward Sessions provides free professional recording and video production services to music artists to create and produce new songs. Artists fully own the rights to their music thats recorded. Our video packages are utilized for the artists EPKS Electronic Press Kits that help build their careers in the music industry. In FY25 13 full-day recording sessions were hosted 31 songs created and 78 artists supported. 11 of the 12 participating artist projects chose to received stipends to cover the expenses artists incur for the production of the songs. These funds must be used for hiring session players to perform on the songs recorded to hire a producer for the songs recorded and or to hire an audio engineer for the mixing mastering of the recordings. Additionally we began curation and advertising for our FY26 programming season in the fall of 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77

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: 14%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 63.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.