Music Orchard Richmond
Legal name: Music Orchard Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815344555
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Richmond, VA, US
- Phone
- 8042930185
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,861
- Expenses
- $62,720
- Assets
- $11,434
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ellen Cockerham Riccio (President of the Board)
- Elizabeth Kilpatrick (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ellen Cockerham Riccio (President of the Board)
- Christina Sienkiewicz (Secretary of the Board)
- Amy Pintea (Treasurer of the Board)
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
To share the joy and benefits of music with the communities of Richmond and beyond through inclusive music education and outreach.
What it reported doing in 2024
In School Residency Program: Music Orchard Richmonds In School Teaching Artist Program supports the schools of Richmond, Hanover, Chesterfield, Henrico, and beyond by providing supplemental instruction from Teaching Artists in the form of sectionals, lessons (individual and group), and ensemble coachings. MOR can provide Teaching Artists for both orchestra and band programs. Teaching Artists are available to visit schools as often as needed to work with students and supplement instruction already being given. While much of our work takes the form of a semester long residency, we encourage schools to book single sessions as well. All Teaching Artists are drawn from the most qualified and experienced teachers and performers in the Richmond area, and extensively background checked. In the 24/25 school year, this program served an estimated 40 students. Expenses listed here are direct expenses, but this program also has indirect expenses allocated to it. This program also has a high number of in kind donations such as space rental estimated around $17500.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 78
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: 12.7%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.