Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$336,002

Total expenses

$344,331

Contributions and grants received

$240,270

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$60,203

Investment income

$7,404

Other revenue

$28,125

Total assets, end of year

$208,644

Total liabilities, end of year

$7,564

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$201,080

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$268,593

Management and general expenses

$24,481

Fundraising expenses

$51,257

Program service expenses (Part III)

$268,593

Program services were 78.0% 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Major concerts - Musiqa presented over 70 artists with opportunities to showcase their skills and engaged more than 55,000 people in arts experiences in the Houston area and beyond through in-person and digital content. Musiqa presented a series of collaborations with local and national composers, artists and musicians, including programs featuring dance, film, video projection and poetry. Concerts featured world premieres of music by emerging composers as well as established Houston artists and diverse voices from around the nation. Musiqa gained a large number of new audience members: 61% of patrons in the 2024-25 season were self-proclaimed first-time attendees to a Musiqa performance.

  Expenses $113,491 · Revenue $35,303

• Outside Performances and Education Programs - Musiqa grew its MusiqaLab program fostering young composers at Madison High School, a Title 1 school in Houston, expanded opportunities to young people regionally with master classes, presented free performances at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and elsewhere, provided opportunities to young artists by hosting and administering their projects, and continued to administer a new consortium offering opportunities to emerging Black, Latinx and Indigenous composers.

  Expenses $51,048 · Revenue $13,000

• Harmony in the Air Public Performance - Musiqa expanded access to high quality artistic experiences around Houston, providing employment to artists at varying stages of their careers. They performed for a large number of travelers to Houston at Hobby Airport through participation in Houston Airport System's "Harmony in the Air" program.

  Expenses $13,995 · Revenue $7,550

• Musiqa receives ticket sales, workshop and promotion sales revenue

  Expenses $90,059 · Revenue $11,754

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

2024

Filed

3 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202543079349302954

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