Sacred Music Fellowship
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931784775
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4154976022
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,904
- Expenses
- $46,776
- Assets
- $34,278
- Liabilities
- $609
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Benamin Kramarz (President)
People named in this filing
- Benamin Kramarz (President)
- Rona Teitelman (Secretary)
- Howard Brownstein (Treasurer)
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
Sacred Music Fellowship is a vibrant, inclusive community that unites people from diverse backgrounds through the power of music. It's mission is to create a space that invites people from different cultures and religious traditions to sing, play, and learn with each other and offers a variety of programs in the Bay Area including weekly jams, music workshops, and holiday events.
What it reported doing in 2025
Various programs forwarding its mission including Weekly Jams, Sacred Sessions, Sing Jam and holiday events.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 18.1%; rating input score 18
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.6%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 74.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 77.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 76.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 16% of revenue deployed · 18.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.