Redtone Records

“The board has the responsibility for reviewing the organiation's form 990 (including all pertinent schedules) before it is filed with the internal revenue service. A draft of the form 990 is ready for review by the board no later than a week prior to the filing deadline. After the draft of the form 990 has been obtained by the board, they will have no more than a week to complete their review. In conducting their review of the draft of the form 990, the board conducts a top-level or big-picture type of review. However, if the board deems it necessary to conduct a more detailed review of the form 990, then they contact the preparer of the form 990 to requeset copies of the relevant detailed tax return workpapers which they would like to see. Once the board has completed its initial review of the form 990, a meeting or conference call is scheduled with the preparer of the form 990 to discuss any questions, comments, and suggested revisions identified by the board. The preparer of the form 990 makes any revisions to the form 990 as soon as feasibly possible to ensure that the form 990 is filed with the internal revenue service on a timely basis. All questions, comments, and suggested revisions set forth by the board are documended, along with any responses from the preparer of the form 990, if applicable.”

“NOT APPLICABLE”

“The board relies on comparability data to determine and approve the compensation of the executive director. The board utilizes resources such as similary situated exempt organizations in their areas to benchmark pay along with market information from other exempt organizations and for- profit organizations to assess the competitiveness and reasonabliess of the compensation. Once a decision has been made, a vote is taken for approval by the board. Recusal of the individuals whose compensation is being determined is mandatory. A similar process is in place for determining compensation of the other key employees, if any.”

“The board relies on comparability data to determine and approve the compensation of the executive director. The board utilizes resources such as similary situated exempt organizations in their areas to benchmark pay along with market information from other exempt organizations and for- profit organizations to assess the competitiveness and reasonabliess of the compensation. Once a decision has been made, a vote is taken for approval by the board. Recusal of the individuals whose compensation is being determined is mandatory. A similar process is in place for determining compensation of the other key employees, if any.”

“The following organizational documents are available (for inspection or copying) at the organization's main office during normal business hours at no charge: -tax exemption application (form 1023) -internal revenue service determination letter -articles of incorporation -by-laws the public inspection copy of the organization's form 990 and form 990-t, from the previous three years (at a minimum), will be available (for inspection or copying) at the organization's main office during normal business hours at no charge, if applicable. The public inspection copy of the form 990 will not include the schedule of schedule a excess contributors or the schedule b names and addresses of contributors. The organization will make best efforts to ensure that the forms 990 and 990-t held at their main office are the most updated versions of such. For example, in the instance where a form 990 has been amended, the amended version of the form 990 or form 990-t will be the one available for public inspection. When responding to a public inspection request for any organizational document or form 990 (including form 990-t) by anyone, the organization fulfills such request in a timely fashion without inquiring as to the reason for the public inspection request. The following other document (most updated versions) is made available for inspection or copying) at the organization's main office during normal business hours at no charge: -conflict of interest policy”

“Redtone records is as a nonprofit, community-based record label and recording studio that provides free, professional music and video production to cultural artists with positive messages. We have a specific focus on preserving and promoting various forms of traditional and roots music from around the world. Additionally we will be conducting regular youth songwriting competitions, incentivizing positive lyrical content from young, aspiring, community artists. Our activities include: identifying and recruiting artists, both locally and internationally; subsidizing travel and lodging expenses for artist residencies when applicable; operating a community-based recording studio; producing music and video; hosting and promoting concerts, festivals and similar activities; pursuing song placements in tv, film, advertising, etc.; marketing and promotion of redtone artists; submitting redtone productions to major artists for possible program revenue to fund redtone activities. Redtone's mission/focus emphasizes: 1) cultural preservation: music is a powerful tool in keeping cultural traditions alive. We are investing in "culture keepers," artists who are carrying on their cultural traditions through musical expression, performance, recording, video, etc. It is not unlike the work of john and alan lomax, recording artists all over the american south for the library of congress, capturing culturally significant forms of music and distributing them in an effort to increase public interest and ensure that these forms continue to exist. 2) positive messaging: 90% of billboard's annual "hot 100" hits consistently address three themes only: sex, drugs and money. We do not want to compromise our mission and message in order to compete with market trends. The nonprofit model allows our message and mission to be the only considerations in the creation of our works, ensuring that we only produce and promote positivity, regardless of whether or not the market is pointing that way. 3) community impact: music is a critical part of community movements, consciousness and health. Part of redtone's services will include the creation of music and messages that educate the public around community issues: education, healthcare, the environment, civic engagement, etc. Additionally, we will provide live music for community events, free of charge to event organizers, as a way to increase public participation and lift spirits. The costs of live music will be covered entirely by the record label. 4) youth impact: these messages of the modern music industry, because of their reach, shape collective conscience and influence younger generations. They encourage substance abuse, greed, promiscuity, the objectification and degradation of women, lack of critical thinking, etc. Meanwhile, there are incredible voices of community empowerment and positivity, both locally and around the world, whose impact is hindered because they don't have the resources to professionally produce and distribute music and video. It's hard to find a young person in east palo alto who doesn't have some aspiration of becoming a famous singer or rapper. These aspiring artists not only need to be flooded with positive music to combat what's on their radios and phones, but they need community-based, successful artists they can look up to, instead of idolizing only whom they see in the damaging imagery of modern music videos. The label will also have youth apprenticeships as well as youth songwriting competitions, incentivizing and monetizing positivity in youth culture.”

“Volunteer board of directors”

“2024 was mostly a year of sustaining ongoing support for the artists weve been working with the past few years. We produced tiffanis second redtone album while also sponsoring and co-producing a life-sustaining practices fellowship she created. Part of this fellowship included the creation of a podcast, recorded in our studio, focused on black health and wellness and featuring redtone music. We released effie zilchs 4th album, multitudes, a celebration of the sounds and spirit of a rich bay area musical legacy going back to san franciscos golden age of the counterculture movement. We released kiazi malongas second album, zu dia ngoma, with some singles having already been released in late 2023. Over this same period of time, kiazi and his musical mentor traveled extensively throughout congo- brazzaville, finding singers and musicians often in more remote communities and bringing them into the city to record their traditional music. Kiazi brought these recordings to our studio where we began organizing and mixing the recordings to produce a full album that will present a wide range of traditional musical styles from various congolese ethnic and language groups. Miko marks saw continued success as a touring artist and redtone ambassador. Highlights include: a 3-month tour with the trailblazing women of country revue; her first booking at stagecoach music festival, the largest ticketed country/americana festival in the world; and her first booking at san franciscos own hardly strictly bluegrass, one of the largest free festivals in the world, drawing hundreds of thousands of attendees. She also expanded her international touring to include several large festivals in canada. 2024 was the first year that redtones tour support yielded more profit than loss, a positive sign as we continue to explore our best strategies for sustainability. It even prompted miko to become the first redtone artist to donate some of her own proceeds back into the redtone organization with a generous 10k gift. We closed out the year with our first-ever fundraising house concert. The concert was hosted by a friend and new supporter of redtone at his home in palo alto. It was an amazing night with performances by each artist and a strong presentation of what we do and why we do it. We raised 35k at the event and are encouraged to create an ongoing series throughout the bay area.”

“Contract labor - musicians 82,844 0 0 contract labor - other 34,107 4,263 4,263 total 116,951 4,263 4,263”

“PRIOR YEAR ADJUSTMENT 0”