Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS
BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $336,190 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($100,001). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $336k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Boston Raising Powerful Musicians does
Mission
Boston Raising Powerful Musicians empowers girls, women, and gender expansive youth and adults to believe in themselves by building a supportive community that fosters self-expression, confidence, and collaboration through music education and performance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Youth summer sessions: brpm offers two week-long summer sessions for girls and gender-expansive youth aged 8-17 at a music facility in partnership with the record co. Participants receive technical instruction in bass, guitar, drums, keyboard, or vocals, along with intensive daily sessions led by experienced musicians. They form bands, write original songs, and explore various artistic media in workshops like spoken word, 'zine-making, and screen-printing. Empowerment workshops on topics like media literacy and intersectional feminism are also part of the program. Each session culminates in a live performance at a boston area music venue.
$3,067 spent16% of program spendingSummer youth volunteer program: the youth volunteer program engages mature and committed youth aged 16-18 who have previously participated in brpm's youth sessions. They serve as instrument instructors, develop workshop content, and lead sessions for younger participants. Youth volunteers also write original songs for performance at the showcase and visit the record co., a professional recording studio in boston's new market area.
$15,630 spent84% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,697.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $76k to $6k (−92%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 14% · 2021 19% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Jen Leavey
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $73k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS’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
BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 37% · 2019 44% · 2020 41% · 2021 97% · 2022 36% · 2023 46% — 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
9% of BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% give in more than one year at all.
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
91% of BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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.
Against its field
BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $64k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$64k
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 RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS?
- BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $336,190 to it, the largest being CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) ($100,001). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $336,190 in grants to BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS?
- CUMMINGS FOUNDATION GRANTS INC (FKA ONEWORLD BOSTON INC) is the largest funder on record, with $100,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS 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.
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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 19 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