Songwriting Works Educational Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
900447753
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Port Townsend, WA, USA
Phone
3603851160
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Rehabilitative Medical Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$71,050
Expenses
$56,235
Assets
$22,294

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTOPHER BRICKER (President)
  • QUANTINA ROBERSON (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • CHRISTOPHER BRICKER (President)
  • QUANTINA ROBERSON (Vice President)
  • JUDITH-KATE FRIEDMAN (Executive Dir.)

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

Music education and community musical engagement

What it reported doing in 2024

Intergenerational educational workshops, forums, trainings, national pilot project (wa, mn, in, ct, al, tx), festivals, radio programs, concert performances. More than 2,500 individuals directly served, thousands more reached via radio/online broadcasts.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 20.9%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 25; 25th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.