Utah Music Educators Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742379342
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- American Fork, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8017569442
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $642,219
- Expenses
- $689,247
- Assets
- $351,431
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sharee Jorgensen (Executive Director)
- Shannon Sowby (Vice-President Jr High)
- Robert Schmidt (Immediate Past President)
- Adam Lambert (President)
- Leah Tarrant (President Elect)
- Orien Landis (Vice-President Band)
Highest reported compensation
- John Miller (Treasurer & Competition Coordinator): $11,544 total reported compensation
- Sharee Jorgensen (Executive Director): $6,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve as the principal voice for the advocacy of music education in Utah with a message that the arts play a unique and critical role in helping students develop the kind of innovative and creative skills that they will need to succeed in the 21st century workforce.
What it reported doing in 2024
All State Music workshops for students to work with national music conductors and educators in learning challenging music for public performance. Includes intercollegiate band performances.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $584K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.