Odaiko Sonora Rhythm Industry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200644377
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5204818003
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,908
- Expenses
- $95,574
- Assets
- $193,146
- Liabilities
- $5,687
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ian Boelts (President)
People named in this filing
- Ian Boelts (President)
- Kathy Bender-Coin (Director)
- Kerrie Green (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Odaiko Sonora Rhythm Industry OS RI is a cultural heritage arts and education agency that engages people throughout Southern Arizona through direct experiences with taiko Japanese drumming. OS RI also manages and operates the only artist-owned performing arts incubator space in the US Southwest, serving the nonprofit arts and cultural communities of greater Tucson.
What it reported doing in 2025
Odaiko Sonora provides cultural arts programming in the form of taiko, or Japanese ensemble drumming, to approximately 200,000 people a year through school programs, classes, workshops, performances, and more. Classes include students from ages 5 to 80 and focus on instilling a sense of community in addition to personal accomplishment many of these students then go on to form the Community Group, which is the core of the organization. Community Group members, along with the Performing Ensemble members and understudies, appear at a variety of cultural festivals in Southern Arizona, including Tucson Meet Yourself, Arizona Matsuri, and the All Souls Procession Performing Ensemble members and understudies also partner with other local organizations like the Tucson Children's Museum to provide additional programming. School programs and residencies occur both in Tucson through TUSD's Opening Minds Through the Arts and in rural communities in Cochise County. Odaiko Sonora also provides support for other cultural arts practitioners, both directly e.g., functioning as a fiscal sponsor for the Southern Arizona Japanese Cultural Coalition and mission-aligned projects and indirectly, through our owned studio building, Rhythm Industry Performance Factory RIPF. By operating RIPF as a cooperative artist-owned arts incubator space, we involve our renters in the care of the space and are able to set affordable prices for local arts practitioners who may not otherwise be able to practice loud or unusual art forms e.g., Japanese archery, Afro-Brazilian drumming, etc.
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 99% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
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: 45.7%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 51/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.