Union City Music Project Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453663891
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Weehawken, NJ, USA
Phone
6468317719
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$192,523
Expenses
$189,215
Assets
$32,483
Liabilities
$10,000

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JUDITH BRO (President)

People named in this filing

  • MELINA GARCIA (Executive Dir.)
  • SANDRA VASQUEZ (Secretary)
  • MARGO PARKS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

UCMP (alternately called "United Children's Music Project") creates a better life for underserved children and youth through affordable music education. We envision a world where kids reach their full potential by developing academic and life skills through increased access to low-cost, high-quality musical training and arts. UCMP's After School Orchestral Music Programs transform Hudson County, NJ's 3-to-18-year-olds through free instruments, affordable instruction, and performances.

What it reported doing in 2024

Founded in 2012, ucmp is nj's first el sistema-inspired after school orchestral music education program. Now in its 11th year, ucmp has served over 800 underservedpre-k-to-12th graders from hudson county's urban communities throughlow-cost music instruction and free instruments. Beginning with "paper orchestra" music immersion, students then are trained in strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion six hours/week, ten months/year by professional musicians. Ucmp's after school program is enhanced by arts electives, summer day camp, field trips, parent workshops, visiting artists, student mentors, and regular area performances of ucmps children's and youth orchestras and chorus.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98.3%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $189K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.