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AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being The LEF Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Catapult Film Fundshared funders
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio match
- The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPportfolio match
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.
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 AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS’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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS’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.
Where its funders are
AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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.
- Catapult Film Fundshared fundersCA · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Music USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music Matters Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susan W Rose Fund for Music Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jackson Fenner Foundation Community Bank Na Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert D Bielecki Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization Inc C/O Sterling Fdn Mgmtportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: 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.
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 AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS?
- AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being The LEF Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS.
- Who is the largest funder of AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS?
- The LEF Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AURORA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC DBA CANDY JERNIGAN FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 1funders 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