Musicians on Call Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134067116
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6154322124
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,544,555
- Expenses
- $3,854,009
- Assets
- $3,752,694
- Liabilities
- $645,561
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETER GRIFFIN (PRESIDENT AN)
Highest reported compensation
- PETER GRIFFIN (PRESIDENT AN): $441,526 total reported compensation
- KATHERINE EPLEY (EXECUTIVE VP): $149,302 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH BLACK (VP OF OPERAT): $147,203 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Musicians on call brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients, families and caregivers in healthcare environments. Musicians on call uses music to promote and complement the healing process.
What it reported doing in 2024
Musicians on call (moc) has delivered live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients, families and caregivers in healthcare environments since 1999. As the nation's leading provider of live music in hospitals, moc volunteers have performed for over 1.2 million people nationwide. Whether it was returning music to children at memorial sloan kettering, bringing smiles to the faces of new moms in houston, or tears of joy and relief to sunrise hospital staff on the memorial of the route 91 festival tragedy in las vegas, musicians on call delivered transformative moments, meaningful connections and joyful memories when they were most needed, across the country. - continued on schedule o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 97
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.6%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.6% of revenue deployed · 70% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $442K · 26 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $337K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.