Music Guild at St. Matthew's
Legal name: St Matthews Music Guild
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261383098
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Encino, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3105730722
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $321,089
- Expenses
- $305,030
- Assets
- $604,177
- Liabilities
- $2,074
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN CARRICK (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PATRICIA MASSEY (BOARD MEMBER): $7,253 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The vision of the Music Guild at St. Matthew’s is to enrich, inspire and serve the Los Angeles community through the presentation of outstanding and innovative musical performances and educational activities. Our mission is to present high-quality concerts of repertoire for small orchestra composed from the Baroque period to the present day with special emphasis on works by living composers and composers of the recent past. An important aspect of this mission is the commissioning of new music by young LA-based composers.
What it reported doing in 2024
Concert performances: the st. Matthews music guild makes a dynamic and fulfilling contribution to the rich musical landscape of the greater los angeles area by presenting a series of classical music concerts featuring the chamber orchestra at saint matthews episcopal church in pacific palisades California. Following the devastating California fires in january 2025 the concerts were temporarily moves to st. Augustines by the sea in santa monica California. The concerts feature guest instrumental and vocal artists and includes premieres of new works commissioned of composers of national and international renown. The concerts enrich the west los angeles community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.98; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 78.3% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $249K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $7K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.