Texas · Nonprofit
CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE
CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $748,730 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($451,760). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $521k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $749k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Church Music Institute does
Mission
Church Music Institute (CMI) is dedicated to the advancement and stewardship of the best of sacred music for the use of worshipping Christian congregations training new generations of clergy, musicians, and laypersons for leading worship through workshops, courses, and conferences across the country supported by a virtual online reference library. CMI also archives choral and organ music and books and resources on liturgy and church music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sacred Music Library - The reference library and virtual, online searchable database for study and evaluation at year end held 60,899 works (32,305 choral - 28,594 organ) from collections of prominent musicians, choral directors, and churches, as well as recently published compositions. Acquisitions in 2025 were from a church and 6 personal libraries. The CMI website is included in the "Performing Arts Web Archive" of the U.S. Library of Congress. There were 44,000 website visitors in 2025, and the mailing list now exceeds 9,100 addresses. A Rodgers hybrid organ model 205 is available for teaching and demonstration purposes.
$75,073 spent$28,981 earned by the program52% of program spendingPrograms - CMI's programs and sacred music libraries have participation from every state in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. Over 7 months of the year, there were 453 participants in 8 virtual and 2 in-person programs presented by 19 recognized individuals in the fields of Christian worship and music (152 first-time attendees). In furtherance of hymn festivals, a CMI friend has contributed more than $77,000 over the last three years.
$60,480 spent$30,627 earned by the program42% of program spendingHymn Festivals - From time-to-time CMI sponsors festivals and participates in other organization's conferences which, in 2025, included 7 Connecticut churches participating in a hymn festival (250 attending), presenting at the Portland, Oregon National Association of Pastoral Musicians convention (45 attending), and information booths at the Texas conventions of the American Choral Directors Association in Dallas (85 visitors) and the American Guild of Organists in Fort Worth (40 visitors).
$9,521 spent7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $145,074.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $2.6M (+23%).
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.
80% of CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Charlotte Kroeker
Director & Executive Director
Board chair
Mark McKnight
Director and Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $139k → $28k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE’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
CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 78% · 2019 84% · 2020 59% · 2021 56% · 2022 59% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“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
CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $277k 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.
Against its field
CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE: 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 CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE?
- CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $748,730 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($451,760). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $748,730 in grants to CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $451,760 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHURCH MUSIC INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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