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ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC

ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,588,836 to it, the largest being THE JULES L PLANGERE JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($825,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$581k
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$314k
19/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Asbury Park Music Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide life-changing music education to engage under-served youth and run events to improve the economic well-being of the residents and unite a diverse community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides life-changing youth education programs for under-served youth. This includes programs in local schools, subsidizing free music lessons for students, providing donated instruments to students in programs. Hundreds of children have participated in the program. The organization also runs concerts and community events in the city of asbury park.

    $346,873 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $346,873.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($372k) Expenses 100 ($312k) Net assets 100 ($197k)2018 Revenue 130 ($486k) Expenses 126 ($392k) Net assets 148 ($291k)2019 Revenue 210 ($781k) Expenses 187 ($584k) Net assets 248 ($489k)2020 Revenue 146 ($545k) Expenses 239 ($746k) Net assets 146 ($288k)2021 Revenue 167 ($623k) Expenses 196 ($610k) Net assets 152 ($301k)2022 Revenue 162 ($603k) Expenses 209 ($651k) Net assets 128 ($253k)2023 Revenue 286 ($1.1M) Expenses 310 ($967k) Net assets 178 ($351k)2024 Revenue 223 ($830k) Expenses 309 ($964k) Net assets 110 ($217k)2025 Revenue 156 ($581k) Expenses 155 ($484k) Net assets 159 ($314k)
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Revenue (156)Expenses (155)Net assets (159)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $512k to $310k (−40%).

$201k
$327k
$512k
$310k
$347k
$265k
$380k
$293k
$323k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 29% · 2023 49% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$61k
’17
$94k
’18
$197k
’19
−$201k
’20
$13k
’21
−$47k
’22
$97k
’23
−$134k
’24
$97k
’25
4.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

James Lenskold

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed78911998128
Joined·+1+1+2+1+0+0+5+1
No longer listed·00030115
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $34k → $234k.

5 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 MUSIC FOUNDATION 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 MUSIC FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

52%
largest funder
73%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 68% · 2019 63% · 2020 65% · 2021 50% · 2022 67% · 2023 53% — 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.

How long its funders stay

42% of ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

78% of ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

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

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $253k on record.

State$253k
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Top programs
  • FEDERAL$167k
  • GRANT IN AID$86k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 17%Fundraising 11%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC?
ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,588,836 to it, the largest being THE JULES L PLANGERE JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($825,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,588,836 in grants to ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC?
THE JULES L PLANGERE JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $825,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing