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SOUNDS ACADEMY

EIN 46-3932746 PHOENIX, AZ

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Revenue 2024
$882,117
Expenses 2024
$899,536

Program services were 75.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A25
Classification
2000
Street
5021 N 20TH ST 44497

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OUR VISION IS TO PROVIDE MUSIC EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES TO A WIDE VARIETY OF CHILDREN WHILE REMOVING ANY BARRIERS THAT CHILDREN MAY HAVE IN RECEIVING QUALITY MUSIC EDUCATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO TEACH, MENTOR, AND PROVIDE MUSICAL EXPERIENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSERVED YOUTH.

  • SOUNDS ACADEMY IS A NON-PROFIT MUSIC EDUCATION ORGANIZATION THAT TEACHES, MENTORS, AND PROVIDES MUSICAL EXPERIENCES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSERVED YOUTH. STUDENTS RECEIVE INDIVIDUAL LESSONS AND GROUP CLASSES ON ALL INSTRUMENTS AND VOICE. INSTRUMENTS ARE PROVIDED TO THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD ONE. SOUNDS ACADEMY STUDENTS LEARN THE CHARACTER VALUES OF CREATIVITY, LEADERSHIP, PERSEVERANCE, RESILIENCE, AND TEAMWORK THROUGH MUSIC EDUCATION. WE TEACH THESE VALUES IN OUR MUSICAL ACCESS PROGRAM, WHICH CONNECTS STUDENTS TO LIVE MUSIC AND INSTRUMENTS THROUGH OUR INSTRUMENT PETTING ZOOS, OUR SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR LOWER INCOME SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY CENTERS, OUR SOLO PROGRAM, WHICH PROVIDES ONE-ON-ONE INSTRUCTION, AND THE COLLECTIVE ENSEMBLES THAT TEACH MUSIC THEORY AND ENSEMBLE PLAYING TECHNIQUES.

    Expenses $682,957 · Grants $167,472 · Revenue $882,117

  • SINCE SEPTEMBER OF 2014, WE HAVE GIVEN OVER 73,000 LESSONS AND CLASSES. OVER 25,000 STUDENTS HAVEBEEN EXPOSED TO LIVE MUSIC AND INSTRUMENTS THROUGH OUR MUSICAL ACCESS PROGRAM. WE HAVE GIVEN OVER$500,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS, CAMPS, ANDCOLLEGE. TODAY WE HAVE OVER 400 STUDENTS IN OUR SOLO AND SCHOOL PROGRAMS THAT RECEIVE INSTRUMENTSAND WEEKLY INSTRUCTION.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Johnson K

    FOUNDER/CEO

    Total calculated
    $80,997
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $80,997
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Larson M

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Babic S

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Halavais J

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $882,117
    Expenses
    $899,536
    Contributions
    $618,382
    Grants paid
    $167,472
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $802,464
    Expenses
    $714,665
    Contributions
    $545,047
    Grants paid
    $150,225
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $640,937
    Expenses
    $673,292
    Contributions
    $469,492
    Grants paid
    $120,690

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $774,966
    Expenses
    $534,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $396,269

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $384,848
    Expenses
    $347,900
    Assets (EOY)
    $154,781

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $326,031
    Expenses
    $264,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,348

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $202,718
    Expenses
    $197,298
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,395

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $176,400
    Expenses
    $145,724
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,958

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $79,486
    Expenses
    $80,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,261

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $66,046
    Expenses
    $61,852
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,957

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 August 2014 to 31 July 2015
Principal officer
Kirk Johnson
Mailing address
1620 E CAMBRIDGE Apt 5PHOENIX AZ 85006

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.