New York · Nonprofit
Bridges Through Music
Bridges Through Music (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $44 to it, the largest being THE AVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($44). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Bridges Through Music has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education 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.
- Union Settlement Association Inclocal
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio match
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3 → $13.
From the IRS filings of Bridges Through Music’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.
Where its funders are
Bridges Through Music draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Union Settlement Association InclocalNY · funds 252 organizations near you
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edwin Caplin Foundation 104786-000portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council InclocalNY · funds 256 organizations near you
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Harmony Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chorus Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Music USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ross McKee Foundation for the Musical Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like Bridges Through Music
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bridges Through Music: 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 Bridges Through Music?
- Bridges Through Music (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $44 to it, the largest being THE AVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($44). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bridges Through Music have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $44 in grants to Bridges Through Music, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bridges Through Music?
- THE AVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $44 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bridges Through Music find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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