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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSIC & EDUCATION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$590,910
Total expenses
$714,604
Contributions and grants received
$587,921
Grants paid
$28,593
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$2,989
Total assets, end of year
$102,318
Total liabilities, end of year
$12,660
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$89,658
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$601,519
Management and general expenses
$113,085
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$601,519

Program services were 84.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $6,096

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $206,500

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $375,325

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $184,189

  • 11a · Other revenue: Cash Back Refunds

    total $1,489 · related or exempt $1,489 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $1,500 · related or exempt $1,500 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $2,989

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $28,593 · program services $28,593

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $122,052 · program services $97,642 · management and general $24,410 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $77,209 · program services $61,767 · management and general $15,442 · fundraising $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $25,462 · program services $20,370 · management and general $5,092 · fundraising $0

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $32,292 · program services $25,834 · management and general $6,458 · fundraising $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $3,000 · program services $0 · management and general $3,000 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $5,680 · program services $0 · management and general $5,680 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $8,086 · program services $8,086 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $21,121 · program services $16,961 · management and general $4,160 · fundraising $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $4,576 · program services $3,661 · management and general $915 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $31,188 · program services $24,950 · management and general $6,238 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $998 · program services $998 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $6,197 · program services $4,957 · management and general $1,240 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Bank Service Charges

    total $613 · program services $0 · management and general $613 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Direct Music Programs Expenses

    total $163,171 · program services $163,171 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: Miscellaneous

    total $177 · program services $0 · management and general $177 · fundraising $0

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $184,189 · program services $144,529 · management and general $39,660 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $212,323 · end of year $100,318

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $2,000

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $1,714

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $60,722

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $60,722

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $7,035 · end of year $12,660

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $207,002 · end of year $89,658

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

FAME's mission is to give every youth musicians the best opportunity to succeed in life by providing music instruction and academic support. We prepare middle and high school students for college and careers through a four-pronged approach--music, instruction, academic support, college preparation and career readiness.

  • Fame Jazz Band Program. more than just a band-it is a high touch program that serves up to 31 middle and high school youth The progam has four components: Music instruction, Math Tutoring, College Preparation and Career Readiness. With access to strog educators. musical and academic support service and technology, participants are demonstrating improved musical and academic knowledge and skills inspite of lingering impact of Covid -19. This year graduates has an average SAT score of 1160 which is higher than the county, participants who took the SAT more than once raised their score by more than 250 points; and received $1.8 millio in grants and scholarshi[ps; the average 3.8 GPA was maintained and 100% of graduates have gone to colleges and universities-75% majored in music related fields such as engineering, construction and business. As part of the program, sutdents serve as interns during the summer and on school breaks.

    Expenses $421,063 · Grants $28,593 · Revenue $500,222

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $60,152 · Revenue $71,460

  • Music Is Central Program. The program supported 1200 students during schoolday and afterschool music programs in elemetary, middle and high schools by providing donated instruments, music supplies, advisory services, and guest instructors for under-resourced schools. Seventy-five percent of the youth are eligible for the Free and Reduced Meals. The six support schools are in prince George's, Montgomery and Alexandria counties.

    Expenses $120,304 · Revenue $142,921

As filed on the 2022 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ingrid Valentine

    Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Reginald Weaver

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Cecelia Davis

    Vice Chair & Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Gregory K Wells

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Karen Jackson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sam Hutchinson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • C Wayne Ferguson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Carl Shazor

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Moneka Cunningham

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Arethia Lewis

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $122,052
    From this org
    $122,052
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
13 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202303199349313980

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