The International Society of Jazz Arrangers and Composers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811134313
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Victoria, MN, USA
- Phone
- 8135465511
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,601
- Expenses
- $116,190
- Assets
- $36,564
- Liabilities
- $5,408
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN CLAYTON (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- MICHAEL CONRAD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN COYLE (PAST VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ERICA VON KLEIST (MANAGING DIRECTOR)
- GAIL BOYD (BOARD MEMBER)
- CLAIRE BRANTLEY (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Isjac provides a comprehensive set of programs that support and advance the work of jazz composers and arrangers. Our biannual flagship jazz composers symposium convenes more than 200 participants for concerts, presentations, workshops, and community-building at rotating host institutions. Launchpad, offered free to members in partnership with 480 arts in st. Paul, mn, gives composers the opportunity to have their works professionally read and recorded by a resident jazz orchestra. Our prize and commission program awards between $10,000 and $20,000 annually through two major commissions and five competitive prizes, attracting up to 150 applicants each cycle.
What it reported doing in 2024
Isjac's prize and commission program supports the creation of new works and recognizes excellence in jazz composition and arranging. The program currently includes two major commissions, the next decade commission and the fundamental freedoms commission which enable selected composers to create substantial new works for premiere at isjac events. In addition, isjac offers five competitive prize opportunities each cycle: the owen prize in jazz composition, the robert pronk prize in jazz composition, the wayne shorter jazz arranging prize, the prize for emerging black composers, and the rule beasley prize in jazz leadsheet writing. These awards collectively distribute between $10,000 and $20,000 annually and attract significant interest from the global jazz community, with 100150 applications submitted each cycle.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: -42.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.