Urban Arts Music
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834613504
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3033937116
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $54,623
- Expenses
- $55,436
- Assets
- $1,032
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DIANNE BETKOWSKI (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DIANNE BETKOWSKI (PRESIDENT)
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
Urban arts music provides communities all over denver, Colorado, the united states and other parts of the world music performances by miguel espinoza flamenco fusion, as well as guest artists and ensembles, and also provides and facilitates educational opportunities of all kinds to people living anywhere on earth.
What it reported doing in 2025
Urban arts music provides performances, recordings, teaching, and tours for the educational benefit of their audiences. The organization also offers music camps and lessons.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
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: -1.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -73.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.2% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.