California · Nonprofit
BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION
BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,390 to it, the largest being THE INTUIT FOUNDATION ($2,900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Buchser Middle School Music Association does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to support the Santa Clara Unified School District Buchser Music Programs through donations, fundraising and facilitating opportunities and logistics for the students to perform.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Primarily, the music association supports the superior Buchser Middle School Music program in which nearly one third (300+) of the school's students participate. The demographics of Buchser's music students provide the basis for an extremely diverse population including ELL, GATE, LEP, Special Education and financially impacted families.A hallmark of the Buchser Middle School Music program philosophy is inclusiveness. The public school students participating in this program come from all socio-economic level, and many require financial assistance in order to participate. Other students in this program face physical challenges, including autism, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, and brain injuries. Whether the challenge is financial or physical. If a child wants to participate in music, the Buchser Middle School Music program makes it possible.The opportunities available for these students include participation in a beginning/intermediate band, advanced symphonic band, jazz big band, advanced jazz, honors jazz, jazz choir, traditional jazz band, symphonic choir and orchestra.The Buchser Middle School Music Association raises funds and organizes activities and events for the…
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $59k to $81k (+36%).
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.
77% of BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $75.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION’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
BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $490 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION?
- BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,390 to it, the largest being THE INTUIT FOUNDATION ($2,900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,390 in grants to BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION?
- THE INTUIT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUCHSER MIDDLE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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