California · Nonprofit
BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC
BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,500 to it, the largest being NEW MUSIC USA INC ($17,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPshared fundersportfolio match
- Chamber Music America Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Ross McKee Foundation for the Musical Artsportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
44% of BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC’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
BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
60% 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 BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states 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. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 132 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Chamber Music America Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ross McKee Foundation for the Musical Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Harmony Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colburn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Judson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Opera America Incshared fundersNY · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- American Symphony Orchestra League D/B/A League of American Orchestrasshared fundersNY · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
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 BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
48%
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 BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC: 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 BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC?
- BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,500 to it, the largest being NEW MUSIC USA INC ($17,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $28,500 in grants to BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC?
- NEW MUSIC USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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