Play It Forward Music Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463697909
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9142636558
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,121
- Expenses
- $29,036
- Assets
- $15,329
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Mazza (President)
People named in this filing
- Steve Mazza (President)
- Jeff Cohn (Treasurer)
- David Loewy (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
The corporation's purpose is to: Facilitate the fundraising process for musicians. The corporation accomplishes this by promoting and distributing original music on its web site, in order to streamline the fundraising process musicians encounter when trying to raise money for charities through their music. The corporation donates all revenue raised by the sale of the songs to the charity chosen by each musician.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our organization hosted musician-led fundraising projects that raised funds for a variety of charities at www.PlayItForward.com. The majority of our expenses this year went toward web hosting fees and donations to other charities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 61.2%; rating input score 61
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: -15.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.7% of revenue deployed · 61.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.