Form 990 for tax year 2025
Filed by FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSIC & EDUCATION INC.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $667,290
- Total expenses
- $613,311
- Contributions and grants received
- $633,401
- Grants paid
- $14,046
- Program service revenue
- $32,853
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $1,036
- Total assets, end of year
- $308,559
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $5,479
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $303,080
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $524,167
- Management and general expenses
- $89,144
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $524,167
Program services were 85.5% 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.
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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$453,936
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$179,465
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2a · Program service revenue: Sale of products
total $4,697 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2b · Program service revenue: Program Fee Income
total $25,160 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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2c · Program service revenue: Other Program Services
total $2,996 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11a · Other revenue: Cashback Rewards
total $1,036 · related or exempt $1,036 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$1,036
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $2,522 · program services $2,522
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $11,524 · program services $11,524
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $154,808 · program services $123,846 · management and general $30,962 · fundraising $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $37,787 · program services $30,230 · management and general $7,557 · fundraising $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $13,670 · program services $10,253 · management and general $3,417 · fundraising $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $9,870 · program services $7,403 · management and general $2,467 · fundraising $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $251,416 · program services $251,416 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $7,083 · program services $5,312 · management and general $1,771 · fundraising $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $8,334 · program services $4,926 · management and general $3,408 · fundraising $0
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14 · Information technology
total $8,475 · program services $6,356 · management and general $2,119 · fundraising $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $52,316 · program services $39,237 · management and general $13,079 · fundraising $0
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17 · Travel
total $10,521 · program services $7,891 · management and general $2,630 · fundraising $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $10,778 · program services $0 · management and general $10,778 · fundraising $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $13,957 · program services $10,468 · management and general $3,489 · fundraising $0
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23 · Insurance
total $5,657 · program services $4,243 · management and general $1,414 · fundraising $0
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24a · Other expenses: Bank Service Charges
total $3,182 · program services $0 · management and general $3,182 · fundraising $0
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24b · Other expenses: Supplies
total $11,386 · program services $8,540 · management and general $2,846 · fundraising $0
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24e · All other expenses
total $25 · program services $0 · management and general $25 · fundraising $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $176,132 · end of year $247,413
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $4,777
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$133,682
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$77,313
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $70,326 · end of year $56,369
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $752 · end of year $5,479
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $245,706 · end of year $255,392
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28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
end of year $47,688
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
FAMEs mission is to give every youth the best opportunity to succeed in life by providing music instruction and academic support.
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Fame Jazz Jazz Band Program See full description in Schedule O-Other line.
Expenses $260,946 · Grants $14,046 · Revenue $28,154
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Summer Music Program See full description in Schedule O- Other line.
Expenses $51,164
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Music Is Central Program See full description in Schedule O-Other line.
Expenses $212,057
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Ingrid Valentine
Chairperson
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Gregory K Wells
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Cecelia Davis
Vice Chair & Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Arethia T Lewis
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $154,808
- From this org
- $154,808
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $125,000
- Bonus
- $29,808
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $154,808
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Karen Jackson
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Sam Hutchinson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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C Wayne Ferguson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Carl Shazor
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Cassandra White
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Winoma Mold
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Jerome Navies
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Gregory Proctor
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Leslie Echols
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Compensation committee
- 3 · Written employment contract
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 15 September 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202602619349300025
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