Rock & Roll Institute Nfp

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832286274
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Rockford, IL, USA
Phone
8158713036
Rating
38
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Arts Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$135,854
Expenses
$120,112
Assets
$39,491
Liabilities
$4,683

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Christina Valdez (President)
  • Laura Speer (Vice President)
  • Jessica Dobson (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Christina Valdez (President)
  • Laura Speer (Vice President)
  • Robb Klinger (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

Our mission is to use Rock and Roll music as a vehicle to educate and inspire musical youth to forge their own musical path.

What it reported doing in 2025

Summer Rock Camps serving 100+ kids

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

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: 2
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 1.8%; rating input score 2
  • Program expense ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 2

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.6%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 27.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -130.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 1.8% of revenue deployed · 2.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.