Sound Affects Music
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844019145
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Phone
- 5852986282
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $173,722
- Expenses
- $180,700
- Assets
- $40,865
- Liabilities
- $2
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Hanna Doreen Brown (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Hanna Doreen Brown (Executive Director)
- Michael Putlack (Board Chair)
- Hannah Casey (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
Sound Affects music programming connects professional musicians with elder individuals living in senior care facilities or at home Through live performance one-on-one residencies and advocacy Sound Affects meets the needs of those who are prone to isolation and who cannot access public music in the ways that they wish Sound Affects is an evolving platform for both older adults and musicians to use music to engage in their larger community and to experience mutual lifelong esteem
What it reported doing in 2025
Bringing music to seniors through live performances one-on-one residencies and to those in isolation or unable to access public music in the ways they wish
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.8%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 72.9%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.8% of revenue deployed · 72.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $132K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.