Sharing a New Song Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043088366
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Arlington, MA, USA
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Cultural Exchange
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,464
- Expenses
- $61,591
- Assets
- $125,081
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jane Arsham (President)
People named in this filing
- Jane Arsham (President)
- Alan Simpson (Treasurer)
- Linda Shoemaker (Admin 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Deepen cultural connections via music.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization provides its members with a professional staff in the interest of improving vocal skills providing fellowship and collaboration towards its purpose of cultural connections thru music.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.9%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.3%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.9% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.