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The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation

The mr. Holland's opus foundation (mhof) keeps music alive in our schools by providing vital support services to school districts, and musical instruments to underfunded music programs nationwide, giving under-represented youth access to the many benefits of music education, leading them to success in school, and inspiring creativity and…

$796k
Granted FY2018
1
Itemized grants FY2018
1
Organizations funded FY2018
100%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$3k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$3,050
Largest grant, FY2018
$3,050
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$7.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 100% of the organizations The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20181$3k100%
FY20171$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$100kEducation$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jazz Foundation of America Inc$100,00011%
School District of Lee County$3,0504n/a

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL100.8× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Project Lead the Way Inc · Share Our Strength · Project Lead the Way Inc · Round It Up America Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Good Sports Inc · Save the Music Foundation · I Car Education Foundation · Action for Healthy Kids · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation

How much does The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation give?
The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $3,050, out of $795,709 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Education (3%).
Who are The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Jazz Foundation of America Inc ($100k), School District of Lee County ($3k).
Does The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include GenYOUTH Incorporated, Project Lead the Way Inc, Share Our Strength.
Where is The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation based?
The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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