Ottley Music School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311699713
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Hyattsville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3014540991
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,660
- Expenses
- $122,157
- Assets
- $108,001
- Liabilities
- $291,540
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Darien Claxton (President)
People named in this filing
- Nevilla E Ottley-Adjahoe (Secy-Principal)
- Tyrone Short (Exec Dir)
- Darien Claxton (President)
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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide music instruction to children & adults & providing performance opportunities throughout the community
What it reported doing in 2023
Instrumental and voice Lessons for 81 Students
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.2%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 68.2%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.88; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.7; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.5%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.2% of revenue deployed · 68.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.