Unlocking Harmony Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993047640
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 2072304144
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,750
- Expenses
- $25,719
- Assets
- $38,031
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Miriam Bornstein (President)
People named in this filing
- Miriam Bornstein (President)
- Eric Lyons (Treasurer)
- Vernon Hammett (Secretary)
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
Unlocking Harmony is a pioneering program that collaborates with incarcerated and previously incarcerated individuals to share their individual stories and voices through the powerful medium of songwriting. Unlocking Harmony mission is grounded in the transformative potential of music as a tool for rehabilitation and as a means to practice and enhance essential interpersonal skills. These skills are not only crucial for navigating life during incarceration but are also beneficial in the process of rebuilding lives post-incarceration. We use music as a bridge to learning, growth, and healing. Through our work, we aim to give individuals theopportunity to express themselves in ways that can lead to profound personal and communal transformation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Songwriting Workshops. Unlocking Harmony conducts songwriting workshops primarily for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals that enable participants to transform personal stories into enduring songs, regardless of their musical background. The workshops will be conducted by the organization's staff andvolunteers and will take place in prisons, jails, and post- prison rehabilitation centers.Performances and concerts in prisons. Following a song-writing workshop, songs created are performed live by the songwriters for their fellow residents and facility staff. Additionally, Unlocking Harmony organizes a culminating concert at the end of a series of workshops given at a prison. All songs written during the workshop are performed by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. The performances and concerts will be organized by Unlocking Harmony's staff and volunteers and will take place in prisons, jails, and post- prison rehabilitation centers. This activity will comprise approximately 30 percent of the organization's total program.Arrangement and dissemination of songs created. Songs written by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated citizens are arranged by professional musicians to be sung all over the world. This program is designed to bring the stories and voices of those who are inside of prison walls to those who are outside, facilitating understanding and healing. Songs are performed live (in public performance venues) and virtual platforms (by video through social media channels).
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.4%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
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: 59.7%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- 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: 31.4% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.