Music Sustainability Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934408446
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2137160059
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $178,611
- Expenses
- $145,777
- Assets
- $51,834
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY MORRISON (CEO)
People named in this filing
- AMY MORRISON (CEO)
- ELEANOR ANDERSON (SECRETARY)
- KURT LANGER (CFO)
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 convene, educate and empower the music industry to embrace sustainability in general, and the climate crisis in particular, across its operations and supply chains and in engaging fans.
What it reported doing in 2024
Convened these three working groups in 2024 - renewable energy and power, waste & reuse, reporting and metrics with guides to be released q4 2025 working groups bring together professionals from across the music ecosystem to turn shared sustainability goals into real-world progress. Each group focuses on a key area of impact such as energy, waste and circularity, merchandise, mobility, reporting, and manufacturing where collaboration drives measurable change. Members identify challenges, exchange best practices, and develop actionable solutions via reports and guides that can be scaled across tours, venues, festivals, and supply chains. Produced three green room webinars in 2024 - zero waste, environmental regulation and fan impact. The green room webinar series shines a light on a broad range of topics, people and perspectives at the intersection of sustainability and the music industry. These free, hour-long sessions are open to all and are recorded and archived for those unable to attend live. Music sustainability summit (mss) 2024 was our inaugural summit with 300 participants in attendance. The mss is the music sustainability alliance's annual gathering dedicated to learning, collaboration, and industry transformation. It brings together artists, executives, producers, and sustainability experts to share knowledge, showcase innovation, and build collective understanding of how the music industry can operate more sustainably.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.3%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 72.6%; rating input score 73
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: 18.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.3% of revenue deployed · 72.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.