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BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC

BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,342,937 to it, the largest being The Klarman Family Foundation ($235,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.1M
Revenue FY2025
38
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$510k
Net assets
26/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($437k) Expenses 100 ($417k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2019 Revenue 103 ($450k) Expenses 104 ($435k) Net assets 72 ($23k)2020 Revenue 109 ($477k) Expenses 123 ($514k) Net assets -42 ($-13823)2021 Revenue 118 ($517k) Expenses 118 ($493k) Net assets 31 ($10k)2022 Revenue 278 ($1.2M) Expenses 215 ($896k) Net assets 1007 ($327k)2023 Revenue 378 ($1.7M) Expenses 325 ($1.4M) Net assets 1925 ($626k)2024 Revenue 418 ($1.8M) Expenses 443 ($1.8M) Net assets 1850 ($602k)2025 Revenue 478 ($2.1M) Expenses 523 ($2.2M) Net assets 1566 ($510k)
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Revenue (478)Expenses (523)Net assets (1566)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

42% of BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
18
$16k
19
$37k
20
$24k
21
$317k
22
$299k
23
$24k
24
$92k
25
1.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $37k → $327k.

6 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)23% 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 BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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

BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

37% 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 BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC.

17%
largest funder
44%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 46% · 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 23% · 2022 18% · 2023 31%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

50% of BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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

90% of BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NH
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
TX

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $314k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 38 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $259k on record — $65k federal, $194k state.

Federal$65k
grants $65kcontracts $0
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23
24
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$65k
State$194k
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25
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$194k

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.

Organizations like BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 21%Fundraising 9%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOSTON 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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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 BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC?
BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,342,937 to it, the largest being The Klarman Family Foundation ($235,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,342,937 in grants to BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC?
The Klarman Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 38funders 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