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Young Musicians Unite Inc

Young musicians unite believes that every student in miami-dade county deserves access to music education regardless of their socio-economic background.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$360k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$992kYouth Development$560k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $332k
  • $250k+2 grants · $688k
$70,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION$360,000
MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC$327,700
ACHIEVE MIAMI INC$141,838
SAVE THE MUSIC$70,000
VOCAL YOUTH MIAMI$70,000
ARTS 4 LEARNING$50,000
TEENY VIOLINI$44,474
GREATER MIAMI YOUTH SYMPHONY$38,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ARTS 4 LEARNING: $50k → 15%MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $328k → 15%MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $153k → 15%VOCAL YOUTH MIAMI: $70k → 15%GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION: $360k → 15%GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION: $200k → 15%ACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $142k → 15%ACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $97k → 15%GREATER MIAMI YOUTH SYMPHONY: $38k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 3 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$1.3M
$272k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GO
    GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $560k · revenue -4%
  • MM
    MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $480k · revenue +7%
  • AM
    ACHIEVE MIAMI INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $239k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • ST
    SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $70k · revenue 0%
  • CV
    CHILDRENS VOICE CHORUS INC
    one grant, 2025 · $70k · revenue 0%
  • AF
    ARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI INC
    one grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $560,000 · Youth DevelopmentGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INCCHILDRENS VOICE CHORUS INC: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDRENS VOICE CHORUS INCMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $480,400 · Arts & CultureMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INCACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $238,676 · EducationACHIEVE MIAMI INCARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI INC: $50,000 · EducationARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAM…SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherSAVE THE MU…TEENY VIOLINI: $44,474 · OtherTEENY VIOLI…GREATER MIAMI YOUTH SYMPHONY OF DADE COUNTY FLORIDA INC: $38,000 · OtherGREATER MIA…
Youth Development$630,000Arts & Culture$480,400Education$288,676Other$152,474

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $560,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetMIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC: $480,400 over 2y, 10% of budgetACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $238,676 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDRENS VOICE CHORUS INC: $70,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNINGMIAMI INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER MIAMI YOUTH SYMPHONY OF DADE COUNTY FLORIDA INC: $38,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Miami Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…The Kirk FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
The Miami Foundation IncFL15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Kirk Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Young Musicians Unite Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Young Musicians Unite Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Greater Miami Youth Symphony of Dade County Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Miami Music Project Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Young Musicians Unite Inc?

Find your warmest path to Young Musicians Unite Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 8 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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