New York · Nonprofit
CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC
CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,790 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $583k
What Classically Connected Inc does
Mission
Classically connected, inc. Cci, formerly known as si-yo music society foundation, inc., is a not-for-profit that aims to connect a global community with classical music by conserving, loaning, and promoting education about instruments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.
CCI began a successful collaboration with two residential condominium owners in NYC, one at 635 West 42nd Street and the other at 611 West 56th Street. Both are easily accessible for artists and audiences alike, within easy walking distance from bus and subway transit, as well as Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. World-renowned artists, as well as high-level students and young artists from major conservatories worldwide, have been featured, offering valuable opportunities for artists to explore new collaborations and perform before live audiences in preparation for notable performances, auditions, and competitions.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Due to emerging institutional risks stemming from rising geopolitical tensions, CCI modified its primary efforts to promote and present to general audiences its network of musical artists by leveraging volunteer efforts and focusing instead on providing them with instruments, introducing them to prospective sponsors, and offering private performance and discussion opportunities for small gatherings among themselves and their friends.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
The asset management and lending program managed 21 loans of instruments to artists in FY 2024-2025. All instruments were reported by the artists to be in good condition using written reports and photos every 3 months.
$38,015 spent53% of program spendingThe findmyinstrument.org registry, launched in November 2022. Registered 250 instruments as of June 2024. CCi-managed instruments with fmi registration numbers received a 75 discount on insurance premiums.
$33,782 spent47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $71,797.
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 2019 to 2020, from $151k to $842k (+458%).
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 25% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Board chair
Dr Paolo Bodini
Trustee and chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $30k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 CLASSICALLY CONNECTED 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 62% · 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
85% of CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC'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 $26k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $147k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC has grown faster than half 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 CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC: 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 CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC?
- CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,790 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $173,790 in grants to CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLASSICALLY CONNECTED INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 5 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