Musicambia Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472158595
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8179807463
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $502,161
- Expenses
- $334,528
- Assets
- $299,116
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NATHAN SCHRAM (PRESIDENT/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR)
- CARLOS IVAN CALAFF (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHAWN JAEGER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SHAWN JAEGER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $87,824 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Musicambia develops music education programs and performances inside prisons and jails throughout the united states. Through working closely with incarcerated people on songwriting, performing, instrument lessons, and music theory, our musicians cultivate artistic communities that nurture the humanity of all involved.
What it reported doing in 2024
Musicambia is an educational program which brings professional musicians inside prisons to help incarcerated individuals write, play, and perform music. Our flagship program, which began at sing sing correctional facility in 2014, meets every other saturday from september to june. 30 incarcerated musicians attend morning and afternoon classes for over 4 hours, and in doing so, foster teamwork, empathy, and a sense of responsibility to themselves as well as to their fellow students.today, we also operate the jeptha program (mental health unit) and summer songwriting workshop at sing sing. In addition, we now have programs at bedford hills correctional facility, and in Kansas and California. We annually reach 125 incarcerated participants, as well as audiences of some 220 incarcerated people attending our concerts. Since 2014, musicambia has created programs in 10 different facilities.musicambia's teaching artists are among the finest musicians and teachers in the nation. They hold positions in the grammy-winning attacca quartet and imani winds. They teach at juilliard, curtis, princeton, and peabody. They have collaborated with pulitzer-prize winners and pop stars like prince, and performed at carnegie hall. Their musical backgrounds span western classical, jazz, musical theater, hip-hop, and pop, as well as indian classical music. One teaching artist, kenyatta emmanuel, is also an alumnus. He performed a full concert at carnegie hall the day he was released.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.8%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.8% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $265K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.