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AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC

AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,974,072 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($3,519,342). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.4M
Revenue FY2025
27
Funders on record
$9.0M
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
16/27 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 95 ($1.1M) Expenses 79 ($1.1M) Net assets 103 ($11M)2019 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 95 ($1.4M) Net assets 103 ($11M)2020 Revenue 131 ($1.5M) Expenses 78 ($1.1M) Net assets 103 ($11M)2021 Revenue 145 ($1.7M) Expenses 105 ($1.5M) Net assets 123 ($13M)2022 Revenue 143 ($1.7M) Expenses 75 ($1.1M) Net assets 118 ($12M)2023 Revenue 73 ($864k) Expenses 118 ($1.7M) Net assets 115 ($12M)2024 Revenue 323 ($3.8M) Expenses 90 ($1.3M) Net assets 154 ($16M)2025 Revenue 122 ($1.4M) Expenses 137 ($2.0M) Net assets 160 ($17M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (137)Net assets (160)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 5% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$244k
17
$1k
18
$177k
19
$429k
20
$213k
21
$616k
22
$816k
23
$2.5M
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$510k
25
5.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $789k → $3.2M.

5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)45% 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 AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS 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

AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC.

39%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 72% · 2019 46% · 2020 76% · 2021 67% · 2022 64% · 2023 86%growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

61% of AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

MI
NY
NV
IN
VA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 27 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Indiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 16%Fundraising 14%

Governance

26
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

48%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC?
AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,974,072 to it, the largest being Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ($3,519,342). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $8,974,072 in grants to AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC?
Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,519,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN PIANO AWARDS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing