Trust Drum Circles
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994906400
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Copley, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6142168026
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,987
- Expenses
- $44,790
- Assets
- $5,556
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MASEH NCHANG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JESSICA BENNET (BOARD CHAIR PRESIDENT)
- LAUREL MYERS HURST (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LUKE KRIZAN (BOARD MEMBER)
- MANNY HALL (BOARD MEMBER)
- GLORY MAFOR (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As a mobile, inclusive arts and wellness organization, we offer adaptive drum circles and music-based programs that foster growth, joy, and belonging. From financial literacy and disability-inclusive wellness to instrument access and youth empowerment, our programs use rhythm to inspire people of all ages and abilities. Trust drum circles is more than just a programit's a movement dedicated to redefining how music and rhythm can enhance lives and transform communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The rhythm collective is a dynamic program that engages individuals in drumming, rhythm-making, and music in a supportive, creative environment. Open to all skill levels, it fosters teamwork, self-expression, and cultural exploration, with an emphasis on collective creativity over individual performance. The program promotes communication, cooperation, and active listening, helping build confidence, creativity, and emotional expression. Through group bonding and teamwork, it strengthens peer relationships and develops community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.6%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 66.3%; rating input score 66
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: 8.6%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th 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: 60.6% of revenue deployed · 66.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.