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BANDWITH MUSIC LTD

BANDWITH MUSIC LTD (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,571,207 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($1,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$2.3M
7/22 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Bandwith Music Ltd does

Mission

Bandwith music works to promote wellness within underserved chicago communities by providing lasting access to exceptional performing arts instruction.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Providing free dance, drumline, sound engineering, instrumental and choral ensemble programs to the local community.

    $503,358 spent$51,436 earned by the program
    62% of program spending
  2. To support bandwith support corporation

    $305,001 spentof which $305,001 as grants
    38% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $808,359.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($91k) Expenses 100 ($91k) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 103 ($94k) Expenses 131 ($120k) Net assets 100 ($25k)2022 Revenue 1602 ($1.5M) Expenses 362 ($329k) Net assets 4640 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 624 ($568k) Expenses 739 ($673k) Net assets 4088 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 1404 ($1.3M) Expenses 727 ($662k) Net assets 6415 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 2105 ($1.9M) Expenses 1308 ($1.2M) Net assets 9332 ($2.3M)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (2105)Expenses (1308)Net assets (9332)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 2021 to 2022, from $70k to $2.5M (+3441%).

$0
$70k
$2.5M
$2.4M
$3.6M
$5.5M
201920212022202320242025
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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 1% · 2023 47% · 2024 28% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of BANDWITH MUSIC LTD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’19
−$25k
’21
$1.1M
’22
−$105k
’23
$616k
’24
$726k
’25
11
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.

Chief executive

Anna Tobin

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed13111413
Joined·+1+5+0
No longer listed·321
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $137k.

6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 BANDWITH MUSIC LTD’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

BANDWITH MUSIC LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

43% 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 BANDWITH MUSIC LTD.

39%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 64% · 2021 94% · 2022 66% · 2023 44% — 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

25% of BANDWITH MUSIC LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

BANDWITH MUSIC LTD draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
NE
VA
DE

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

BANDWITH MUSIC LTD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)66% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BANDWITH MUSIC LTD

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 22%Fundraising 11%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Bandwith Support Corporation Nfp · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BANDWITH MUSIC LTD?
BANDWITH MUSIC LTD (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,571,207 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($1,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BANDWITH MUSIC LTD have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,571,207 in grants to BANDWITH MUSIC LTD, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BANDWITH MUSIC LTD?
Fulk Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BANDWITH MUSIC LTD find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 22 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