Musical Pathways Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208948598
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Waunakee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6085766688
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,590
- Expenses
- $74,255
- Assets
- $7,497
- Liabilities
- $1,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RENEE FREY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RENEE FREY (PRESIDENT)
- LISA BYCZEK (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
To provide musical education using the kindermusik international curriculum. This growth and development program utilizes music as a stimulus to develop children's cognitive, physical, social, emotional, and language skills as well as their music development
What it reported doing in 2024
Kindermusik education classes had 86 students in 20 classes and 174 music lesson students for the september 2024 through may 2025 school year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.3% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $71K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.