Supernova Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934255510
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Hampton, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2023083249
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,388
- Expenses
- $19,501
- Assets
- $32,823
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tim Receveur (Executive Director)
- Dunia Best Sinnreich (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Tim Receveur (Executive Director)
- Dunia Best Sinnreich (Board President)
- Lindsay McCarthy (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
Supernova Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and advancing the culture, history, and community of Ska music through education, artistic collaboration, and cultural exchange. We create opportunities for artists, students, and fans to connect, learn, and celebrate this globally influential music by producing programs such as Amplifying Talent, Roots and Routes, and the Supernova International Ska Festival. Our mission is to empower the next generation of creators, strengthen local communities, and honor Ska's legacy as a movement for unity, inclusion, and positive social change. Through live music, mentorship, and storytelling, we ensure that Ska's spirit of togetherness continues to inspire audiences across generations and around the world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Amplifying Talent is an education and workforce development initiative to give students hands-on experience in live music production, media, and event management. Students from Hampton University ran the livestream at the Supernova International Ska Festival in September of 2025 as part of this program and experienced filming and production tasks as well as technology based implementations of the streaming systems. The livestream reached fans in 40 states and 15 countries. The alliance received a total of $12,900 in grants specific to the Amplifying Talent efforts in FY 25 however, only $7,900 were received for the FY 25 event. The additional $5,000 was received in FY25 as an advance grant for the FY26 event.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 60% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.