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Form 990 for tax year 2024

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

Totals

Total revenue
$695,600
Total expenses
$653,042
Contributions and grants received
$658,451
Grants paid
$17,450
Program service revenue
$35,677
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$1,472
Total assets, end of year
$246,458
Total liabilities, end of year
$752
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$245,706
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$582,858
Management and general expenses
$70,184
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$582,858

Program services were 89.3% 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.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $460,234

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $198,217

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $0

  • 2a · Program service revenue: sale of products

    total $2,161 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Services

    total $33,516 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Cashback Rewards

    total $1,472 · related or exempt $1,472 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $1,472

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $17,450 · program services $17,450

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $125,000 · program services $100,000 · management and general $25,000 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $53,378 · program services $42,702 · management and general $10,676 · fundraising $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $17,902 · program services $14,322 · management and general $3,580 · fundraising $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $15,175 · program services $12,120 · management and general $3,055 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $297,140 · program services $297,140 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,561 · program services $2,049 · management and general $512 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $8,551 · program services $6,841 · management and general $1,710 · fundraising $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $8,277 · program services $6,622 · management and general $1,655 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $43,951 · program services $35,161 · management and general $8,790 · fundraising $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $26,497 · program services $21,198 · management and general $5,299 · fundraising $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $11,665 · program services $9,332 · management and general $2,333 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $12,282 · program services $9,776 · management and general $2,506 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Bank Service Charges

    total $3,032 · program services $0 · management and general $3,032 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Supplies

    total $10,181 · program services $8,145 · management and general $2,036 · fundraising $0

  • 24c · Other expenses: Miscellaneous

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

  • 24e · All other expenses

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

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $157,433 · end of year $176,132

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $400

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

    $133,682

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

    $63,356

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $44,508 · end of year $70,326

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $7,457 · end of year $752

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $194,884 · end of year $245,706

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

FAME prepares middle and high school students for college and career through a four-pronged approach ...music instruction, academic support college preparation, and career readiness.

Activities or mission (Part I)

FAMEs mission is to give every youth the best opportunity to succeed in life by providing music instruction and academic support.

  • Fame Jazz Band Program(60% of program funding). Its more than just a band- is a high touch year round program that currently serves up to 31 middle and high school youth, up to four hours per week for 44 weeks each year. The progam has four components: Music instruction, Math Tutoring, College Preparation and Career Readiness. With access to strong educators,musical and academic support service and technology, participants demonstrated improved musical and academic knowledge and skills. This years graduates had an average SAT score oe 1260 which is higher than the County average. Participants who took the SAT more than once raised their score by 190 points; and received an aggregate $822,110 in grants and scholarships. They averaged3-9 GPA and all graduates matriculated to colleges and universities- 50% are majoring in music, 25% in science and 25% in business. Several students serve as interns during the summer and on school breaks. Eighty per cent of the students improved their overall musinc abilities and shared their learning and progress with their school music orchestras and bands. All members maintained their current grade level and 50% met the national standards for music and math.

    Expenses $349,715 · Grants $17,450

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

    Expenses $58,286

  • Music Is Central Program (30% of program funding). The program supported 990 students during schoolday and afterschool music programs in elementary, middle and high schools by providing donated instruments, music supplies, advisory services, and guest instructors for under-resourced schools. Eighty percent of the youth are eligible for the Free and Reduced cost Meals. The six supported schools are in Prince Georges, Montgomery and Alexandria counties. Also, this year we opened a state of the art Music Technology Centr at Andrew Jackson Schoo; where 100% of the students receive free and reduced cost lunch.

    Expenses $174,857

As filed on the 2024 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
    2

  • 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

  • Cassandra White

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Arethia Lewis

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $125,000
    From this org
    $125,000
    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.

Schedule J

Itemized on Schedule J with no Part VII listing of the same name on this return:

  • A Toni Lewis

    Schedule J breakdown

    Base
    $125,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $125,000

Answered yes

  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 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
2024
Filed
19 October 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202532959349301363

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