Alabama · Nonprofit
CLEFWORKS INC
CLEFWORKS INC (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,919 to it, the largest being THE J K LOWDER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Clefworks Inc does
Mission
To promote the education & enjoyment of chamber music
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Clefworks is a music outreach program designed to promote the education and enjoyment of chamber music through a series of performances in the montgomery area. Clefwork's 2023-2024 season held eight major events. We continued to foster the appreciation of chamber music, hired classically trained musicians, hosted concerts, and celebrated a culture of music appreciation in montgomery, alabama. We partnered with the alabama institute for education in the arts for an educational concert seminar conducted by the alabama state brass quintet. The wetumpka public library summer program also hosted the asu brass and instrument petting zoo. Olivier chassain of france performed at christchurch for a free concert. Steamfest, the alabama shakespeare holiday open house ended the year on a high note we co-hosted a benefit for asu professors travelling to an international music festival. String theory and the mcclellan-back guitar duo were our featured performers at our public paid concerts in our 17th season of educating students and entertaining the montgomery community.
$24,505 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,505.
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 2020 to 2021, from $33k to $15k (−54%).
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.
91% of CLEFWORKS 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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $11k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 CLEFWORKS 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
CLEFWORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 CLEFWORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 33% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 83% · 2022 67% · 2023 56% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of CLEFWORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
88% of CLEFWORKS INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
CLEFWORKS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CLEFWORKS 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 CLEFWORKS 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 CLEFWORKS INC?
- CLEFWORKS INC (Alabama) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,919 to it, the largest being THE J K LOWDER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEFWORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $77,919 in grants to CLEFWORKS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEFWORKS INC?
- THE J K LOWDER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEFWORKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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