Maryland · Nonprofit
CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC
CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being ALAN M & MILDRED S RAVENAL FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Center of Musical Studies Inc does
Mission
Conducts music and arts festival on the amalfi coast, italy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Acmf festival: organizes and conducts annual summer music festival and institute in italy. Institute consists of intensive study session where students register and pay tuition to receive private instruction in a full-immersion format while at the same time participating in group workshops and master classes. The festival took place every year since 1997, with the exception of 2020 and 2021 when the covid pandemic forced cancellation. As explained below, it was suspended for 2025.
$0 spent0% of program spendingIn late 2024/early 2025 the Center of Musical Studies learned that certain facilities (rehearsal space, practice rooms, concert hall) critical to its successful operations, would no longer be available in its longtime location. Efforts to find a suitable short-term solution in the surrounding area were unproductive. In addition, costs had risen dramatically in that part of Italy. As a result, the major activity of CMS was temporarily suspended for the 2025 season. Instead, the organization committed itself to revising its mission. CMS officers invested their time and efforts in exploring and evaluating potential locations in Italy and France, among others. CMS officers also consulted with the board about adapting its activity in order to adjust to the new realities on the ground. The outcome thus far has been a shift to shorter, more limited programs targeted at a different demographic. In 2026 CMS has undertaken two short, highly focused programs in April and October of this year. These programs have garnered full attendance and been targeted at audiences that do not need the space required in the past.
$5,842 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,842.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.1M to $743k (−29%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 25% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC’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
100% of CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
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.
Against its field
CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC's revenue fell 98% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC?
- CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being ALAN M & MILDRED S RAVENAL FOUNDATION ($1,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC?
- ALAN M & MILDRED S RAVENAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER OF MUSICAL STUDIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing