California · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER (California) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,050,615 to it, the largest being FRED MAYTAG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($996,699). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Community Music Center does
Mission
The mission of Community Music Center is to make high-quality music accessible to people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities, regardless of financial means. We believe in the power of music to connect people, celebrate cultures and transform lives. We envision students and faculty who are engaged and fulfilled in making music together, and audiences who are energized by their experiences. Inspired by their training, our students are empowered to find their own voice, develop lasting relationships, embrace learning, and give back to their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cmc offers free and low-cost private lessons, ensemble and theory classes, workshops, and community performances throughout the year and administers the largest tuition-assistance program of its kind in the country. Cmc features students, faculty, and guest artists in hundreds of concerts each year in the e.a. Michelson concert hall, a new recital hall, and in off-site venues throughout san francisco. The new recital hall and six new classrooms are part of cmc's expanded mission district campus, which opened on january 3, 2024. The official ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on february 21, featuring a visit from san francisco mayor london breed, remarks from many local stakeholders, and student and faculty performances. -- in 2024, over 3,400 students, ages 1-95, benefited from the expertise of 124 teaching artists on two campuses and in off-site partnership programs. Their age groups were 1% 0-5, 32% 6-10, 24% 11-18, 13% 19-35, 9% 36-54, 12% 55-74, and 7% 75-95. Those who reported their genders were 54% female, 39% male, 3% nonbinary or gender non-conforming, 1% transgender, and 3% decline to state. Their ethnicities were 16% asian, 4% black or african american, 2% filipino, 12%…
$7,444,087 spentof which $3,072,807 as grants$5,246,061 earned by the program100% of program spendingCampus expansion: in 2012, cmc purchased the neighboring building, taking advantage of a rare opportunity to expand in place in the mission district. The capital campaign is used to support renovation of both buildings, the concert hall and central courtyard, to create a single, intergrated campus. The immediate goal is to provide additional and improved space for core activites in educational and creative realms, with increased accessibility. The ultimate goal is to serve our community long into the future, offering an example to other organizations of the potential of music education to provide evidence-based, measurable benefits to students of all ages and backgrounds.
$428,053 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,444,087.
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 $13M to $16M (+22%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Julie Rulyak Stienberg
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.1M.
18 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 funders by total. 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
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
43% 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 COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 21% · 2019 43% · 2020 13% · 2021 15% · 2022 27% · 2023 14% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 21 funders to 36 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$115k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cmc Leverage Lender Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: 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 COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER?
- COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER (California) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,050,615 to it, the largest being FRED MAYTAG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($996,699). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $9,050,615 in grants to COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER?
- FRED MAYTAG FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $996,699 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 85 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