New Jersey · Nonprofit
ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC
ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,486 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $191k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $221k
- Net assets
- $468k
What Asbury Park African-American Music Project Inc does
Mission
The Asbury Park African-American Music Project Inc celebrates the music and stories of springwood avenue in asbury park new jersey
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Share the music, cultural heritage and stories of springwood ave through oral histories, research, writing and programs.
$70,586 spentof which $54,040 as grants$138,406 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $70,586.
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 $194k to $369k (+90%).
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.
99% of ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $135k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT 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
ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.
“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
ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC?
- ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,486 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $221,486 in grants to ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASBURY PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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