Maryland · Nonprofit
A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC
A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,454 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($154,580). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $69k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $166k
- Net assets
- $29k
What A D Cherry Early Childhood Music Outreach Program Inc does
Mission
Our organization addresses the inequity in music education for young children living in disadvantaged communities throughout maryland and dc. We bring free research-based, early childhood music education to underserved communities throughout the region. We currently serve 1,700 children annually, and 24 partner centers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
With more than 17 years of success, our outreach program is proud to provide free music class programming in child development centers, pre-k programs and nursery schools in the washington, d.c./baltimore metro areas. Specifically, we provide mobile, early childhood music classes to child development centers that serve low- income, marginalized diverse communities. These centers include head start centers, judy centers and other centers that serve under-resourced populations. Cherry children's music outreach offers these classes at no charge to the children, families or centers. We provide all instruments and props needed for our classes. Early childhood music education has long been known as an effective tool to enhance the learning of language, mathematics, memory skills and mnemonics, motor skills, and as a preparation for elementary school and a child's academic career . We conduct our programs in 19 head start, judy and child development centers in four maryland counties- anne arundel, howard , montgomery and baltimore county- and in washington dc. When possible, we also provide occasional scholarships to financially challenged children ages 5-16 for performing arts classes…
$48,714 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,714.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $44k to $22k (−49%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Claire Cherry
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $40k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
96% of A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC?
- A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,454 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($154,580). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $166,454 in grants to A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $154,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A D CHERRY EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC OUTREACH PROGRAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing