Music Artists Coalition
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What it says it does
Music Artists Coalition's purpose is to promote the common business interest for its membership and engage in advocacy on behalf of individual music artists, including, without limitation, performers, music producers and songwriters.
- Income
- $250,000
- Spending
- $263,173
- Employees
- 0
- Volunteers
- 17
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (4)
- $262,659 spent. MAC expanded its advocacy operations impacting its members, representing over 100 musical artists and the creator community more broadly. Through testimony before five state legislatures (Hawaii, Missouri, California, New York, and Washington D.C.), MAC directly represented the business interests of music creators facing unfair ticketing practices that reduce their income and exploit fans, advocacy for free speech via the RAP Act and other related state bills, and submitted multiple comments to inquiries from multiple federal bodies.
- Music Artists Coalition advocated before multiple government bodies to protect artists' rights, including: (1) submitting written comments before the U.S. Copyright Office regarding reform of performing rights organizations' consent decrees to ensure songwriters maintain fair compensation for public performances; (2) submitting formal comments to the UK government opposing unconsented AI ingestion of copyrighted works; (3) filing an amicus brief in Vetter v. Resnick (Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals) to protect artist copyright ownership rights; (4) organizing coalition letters with 36+ music industry organizations supporting ticketing reform legislation across multiple states; and (5) advocating to federal and state policymakers to establish protections for music creators against unauthorized use of their work in artificial intelligence systems.
- Monitoring implementation of the Music Modernization Act MMA, passed in October 2018, which reforms the process of music licensing and creates a formalized body, the Mechanical Licensing Collective MLC, run by publishers, that a administers the mechanical licensing of compositions on streaming services, and b funds the creation of a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive database. The corporation seeks to ensure that the policies and procedures developed under the MMA create a system by which songwriters have ease of collection of their royalties and ensure that the MLC is not used by licensees as a tool to convince congress to create regulated or compulsory systems with respect to any other song writer's income stream.
- Lobbying the California Assembly for an exemption to recently enacted California Assembly Bill 5 for independent recording to allow independent artists, songwriters, and record labels to remain in California. Monitoring the outcome of an appeal of a decision by the Copyright Royalty Board CRB regarding how digital service providers pay out royalties to songwriters, labels, musicians, etc., which took steps toward fairly compensating songwriters and recognizing their contribution to the music industry.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(6) business league.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(6) business league as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since November 2020.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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