Michigan · Nonprofit
CENTER STAGE STRINGS
CENTER STAGE STRINGS (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,750 to it, the largest being COLBURN FOUNDATION ($34,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Center Stage Strings does
Mission
To provide personal instruction in the areas of solo and chamber music performanceto aspiring young musicians through a summer camp experience and public musicfestival. Our music festival promotes and developes music education to thegeneral public through concerts of the highest caliber for rural communityaudiences to experience and enjoy live music that otherwise is not generallyavailable in non-urban areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Music education to the general public in non-urban areas
$6,103 spentof which $10,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,103.
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 $113k to $156k (+38%).
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.
70% of CENTER STAGE STRINGS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of CENTER STAGE STRINGS’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 STAGE STRINGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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% · 2018 91% · 2019 91% · 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
CENTER STAGE STRINGS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 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.
Against its field
CENTER STAGE STRINGS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER STAGE STRINGS
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 Michigan
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 CENTER STAGE STRINGS: 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 STAGE STRINGS?
- CENTER STAGE STRINGS (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,750 to it, the largest being COLBURN FOUNDATION ($34,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER STAGE STRINGS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $58,750 in grants to CENTER STAGE STRINGS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER STAGE STRINGS?
- COLBURN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $34,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER STAGE STRINGS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 3 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