California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC
CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $516,933 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($225,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $571k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $517k
- Net assets
- $538k
What Center for World Music does
Mission
The Center for World Music is a San Diego organization fostering intercultural awareness through the worlds performing arts traditions. We create engaging educational and performance opportunities to strengthen the bonds that make us one community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Center for World Musics World Music in the Schools program provides WORLD MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS hands-on music and dance education to over 10,000 pre-K12 students annually in San Diego area schools and through online learning. The program offers weekly artist residencies, interactive assemblies, and presentations featuring diverse world music and dance traditions. Nearly 3,200 students receive sustained weekly instruction, and more than 60% of participants are from low-income, underserved neighborhoods. The program is supported by public and private grants, school organizations, and individual donors.
$660,859 spentof which $112,453 as grants$398,208 earned by the program93% of program spendingThe center for world music presents year-round public concerts and community workshops at venues throughout San Diego. Each year,the organization showcases at least 12 world music and dance traditions through ticketed and free concerts featuring local and visiting artists, fostering cultural understanding and community engagement. From January to June, six public concerts attracted approximately 700 attendees. In addition, free mini-concerts and collaborative events with libraries and cultural groups highlighted San Diegos musical diversity, with an estimated 15 events reaching hundreds of participants. The program is supported by grants, private foundations, donors, and ticket sales.
$35,601 spent$24,167 earned by the program5% of program spendingThe center runs a school for teaching Odissi dance (A classical dance form from India) to community members as well as well as to students in public schools with many performances by the students and teacher. The teachers come from India on P-3 VISAS to be teachers inn residence for a period of one year. The current number of students is 30 with tuition varying from $20 to $35 for one-hour class.
$14,170 spent$20,180 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $710,630.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $290k to $549k (+89%).
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: 2021 65% · 2022 34% · 2023 39% · 2024 46% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Ms Connie Kaczmarczyk
Chair - board development
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $41k → $38k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 CENTER FOR WORLD 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 51% · 2020 86% · 2021 42% · 2022 42% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.
“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
75% of CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
59% of CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $210k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $290k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$290k
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 CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC
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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 CENTER FOR WORLD 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC?
- CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $516,933 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($225,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $516,933 in grants to CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR WORLD MUSIC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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