Musyca
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271976211
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Canoga Park, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8185549937
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Singing, Choral
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $572,808
- Expenses
- $451,147
- Assets
- $725,534
- Liabilities
- $14,677
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anna Krendel (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Mikhail Shtangrud (Artistic Director): $28,440 total reported compensation
- Anna Krendel (CEO): $22,500 total reported compensation
- Grace Doyle (Teacher): $8,100 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of MUSYCA Childrens Choir is to provide the highest quality of music education to Children and Youth of all religious ethnic cultural and economic backgrounds through study and performance of outstanding choral repertoire. MUSYCA is dedicated to diversity access and service to the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission of MUSYCA Childrens Choir is to provide the highest quality of music education to Children and Youth of all religious ethnic cultural and economic backgrounds through study and performance of outstanding choral repertoire. MUSYCA is dedicated to diversity access and service to the community. Our community faces the poverty and hardship on a daily basis. Most of the families served by our organization are first or second generation immigrants who came to the US to escape religious persecution. They came to this country without any means for survival without savings and with no English language skills. The majority of the students come from the low-income families and attend Title I public schools. MUSYCA is the only music education program available to them. MUSYCA work tirelessly to provide a bright future for the children through arts education provide them with opportunities for leadership and growth and assist the needy families. Our graduates are accepted leading colleges and universities and embark on fruitful fulfilling careers upon graduation. The choir activities performance and recordings greatly contribute to the cultural life of our thriving vibrant community. Our organization became iconic for our immigrant community and we serve our students and their families as well as our audience members where they live. Before the pandemic we expanded our services to two convenient locations across the San Fernando Valley. During COVID-19 we transferred our programs online with easy access for all. Our faculty continues to teach in-person and online to make sure that everyone has an equal access to the program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 68% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 92%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $44.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.2%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.5% of revenue deployed · 92% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $415K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $28K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.