Our Joyful Noise Baltimore Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850842997
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4436955365
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,520
- Expenses
- $78,687
- Assets
- $111,458
- Liabilities
- $591
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Todd Troester (President)
- Elissa Sachs-Kohen (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Maria Lambros Kannen (Executive Dir.)
- Todd Troester (President)
- Elissa Sachs-Kohen (Vice 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
With "kinship and the power of music" as its motto, Our Joyful Noise Baltimore (OJN) serves the essential human need for beauty and connection with art through free live musical performances of the highest professional quality presented in a veterans' shelter, women's prison, cancer treatment residence, and for people living with autism in the Baltimore community. Our vision is of a world where all people regardless of economic situation, disability challenge or circumstance have easy access to the life affirming splendor of live music. In addition to bringing music to under served audiences, OJN seeks to enrich the lives of our performers, including young, emerging artists on the cusp of their professional careers. We inspire our musicians to create unique musical experiences that touch the hearts of our audience members and that, in turn, help these artists reconnect with the meaning, purpose and relevance of what they do.
What it reported doing in 2024
On-going concert series is presented in Veteran's shelters, woman's prisons, cancer treatment residences and for people living with autism in the Baltimore Community. Over 600 people hear the concerts every year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.5%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 68.1%; rating input score 68
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: 28.8%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.5% of revenue deployed · 68.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.