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BAND TOGETHER

BAND TOGETHER (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $626,888 to it, the largest being C HAMILTON SLOAN FOUNDATION ($225,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.0M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$627k
Net assets
$404k
15/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Band Together does

Mission

Band Together uses live music as a platform for social change

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To raise funds and awareness for select charities through events that showcase and support musical talent. Funds received for the mighty giveback event, held in october 2025, totaled 995,744, with 491,325 donated directly to the current grant recipients. Funds received for the homecoming event, held in january 2025, totaled 49,478.

    $893,230 spentof which $537,881 as grants$115,716 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $893,230.

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 ($559k) Expenses 100 ($540k) Net assets 100 ($184k)2018 Revenue 102 ($570k) Expenses 103 ($555k) Net assets 108 ($198k)2019 Revenue 132 ($741k) Expenses 130 ($702k) Net assets 129 ($237k)2020 Revenue 25 ($141k) Expenses 56 ($304k) Net assets 40 ($74k)2021 Revenue 80 ($449k) Expenses 51 ($274k) Net assets 136 ($249k)2022 Revenue 155 ($865k) Expenses 160 ($866k) Net assets 104 ($191k)2023 Revenue 194 ($1.1M) Expenses 132 ($712k) Net assets 307 ($564k)2024 Revenue 176 ($987k) Expenses 206 ($1.1M) Net assets 239 ($438k)2025 Revenue 187 ($1.0M) Expenses 200 ($1.1M) Net assets 220 ($404k)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (200)Net assets (220)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 2022 to 2023, from $196k to $563k (+188%).

$187k
$205k
$240k
$75k
$253k
$196k
$563k
$439k
$406k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 21% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of BAND TOGETHER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (70% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 855 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$19k
’17
$15k
’18
$38k
’19
−$163k
’20
$175k
’21
−$1k
’22
$372k
’23
−$128k
’24
−$38k
’25
2.3
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.

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Listed221820181718171917
Joined·+1+8+3+1+5+5+2+2
No longer listed·56524604
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 9 funders, grant income rose $81k → $90k.

8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 BAND TOGETHER’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

BAND TOGETHER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

38% 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 BAND TOGETHER.

36%
largest funder
53%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 50% · 2019 31% · 2020 76% · 2021 66% · 2022 21% · 2023 28% — 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

40% of BAND TOGETHER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

90% of BAND TOGETHER's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

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NC
TX

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

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’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

BAND TOGETHER's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 513 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BAND TOGETHER

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 11%Fundraising 7%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

88%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BAND TOGETHER?
BAND TOGETHER (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $626,888 to it, the largest being C HAMILTON SLOAN FOUNDATION ($225,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BAND TOGETHER have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $626,888 in grants to BAND TOGETHER, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BAND TOGETHER?
C HAMILTON SLOAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BAND TOGETHER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 26 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