Project Rhythm Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274511789
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Jackson Heights, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7188587636
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,000
- Expenses
- $88,387
- Assets
- $40,619
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Kevin Shiba (Director)
- Portia Jones (Director)
- Nafisa Dodi (Director)
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
Project Rhythm is a Non-Profit Organization formed to emplower disadvantaged youth through music by engaging them in music production and performance sessions, music education, mentoring, community service, and other custom programs. Our Mission is to
What it reported doing in 2025
Online Learning Platform that provides teachers and students with an onlinecurriculum and training using the Organizations Float Method, as well as aMobile Studio providing recurring 5-10 day song creation classes at hosts venues. Approx 100 students served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -76.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -26.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.