Tunefoolery Music Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271440424
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6176268991
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $171,056
- Expenses
- $170,034
- Assets
- $91,742
- 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
- Jeff Fisher (Secretary/Co-Executive Director)
- Eugene McCarthy (Co-Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Harrison Huang (Director)
- Joanna Loveluck (Director)
- Deborah Shea (Director)
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
Tunefoolery is an arts & human services nonprofit that empowers, educates, and employs musicians in mental health recovery, who perform over 600 live music events a year at community partner sites and for the public.
What it reported doing in 2025
Tunefoolery brought live music to mental health and community-based programs throughout the Greater Boston area, including hospitals, shelters, nursing homes, and other community settings. During the year, 19 Tunefoolery musicians participated in 658 performance engagements, some involving multiple musicians, reaching audiences totaling approximately 10,000 people. Tunefoolery also provided music education and support services to its musicians, including approximately 90 individual music lessons for 11 musicians, weekly one-on-one goals coaching sessions, and approximately weekly check-in and musician support groups. Tunefoolery held 52 online and 9 in-person open mics, free and open to the public, reaching more than 500 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% 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: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 67%; rating input score 67
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: 0.6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67% of revenue deployed · 67% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $114K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.