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 Oneworld Boston Inc ($100,001). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Boston After School & Beyond Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Wellington Management Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio 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.
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
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
93% 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.
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 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Boston After School & Beyond Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · funds 155 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wellington Management Foundationshared funderslocalMA · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 organizations near you
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carole C Remick NE HS Journalism Collaberative Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elma Music Foundation (Us)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carnegie Hall Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Find Your Light Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mockingbird Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memphis Equity Through Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fundshared funderslocalMA · backs 118 organizations that share your funders · funds 175 organizations near you
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 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
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
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS: 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 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 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?
- 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.
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 19funders 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