Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 391667984
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Pewaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 2626966459
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,239
- Expenses
- $82,256
- Assets
- $128,042
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sam Ecoff (President)
- Jeanne Hyrniewicki (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sam Ecoff (President)
- Jeanne Hyrniewicki (Vice President)
- Caelyn Meier (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
To develop, maintain and appreciate musical creativity.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs exists to promote American Music & Musicians, to aid and encourage music education and appreciation of the arts, to develop and maintain the highest standards of musical creativity and performance. WFMC accomplishes their mission by promoting the Federation Festival in which approximately 3500 students, school age and adults, perform in judged events. Competition awards are supported by WFMC for education, music therapy, collegiate awards, composition and handicapped awards. These competitions are held both at the State and the National levels. WFMC supports and encourages the arts in members homes, schools, communities and churches. Members decide how they will spend their time and resources on musical projects, programs and events. Members are reached through local club programs in which clubs are formed and follow the National Federation policies and activities which include election of officers, quarterly meetings, a bienniel State Convention, state and club newsletters and two nationally published magazines. Each club chooses whether to support church and school musical activities through monetary donations as well as sponsoring musical events. Members also choose to attend, perform and lead musical community events. Clubs may observe National Music Week, American Music Month, and participate in sacred music, Crusade for Strings, Hymn of the Month programs and the promotion of opera, dance, folk music, chamber music and poetry as set forth by the National Federation of Music Clubs.
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 94% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.1%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.8%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.1% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.