New York · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT
COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,558 to it, the largest being REGINALD A & ELIZABETH S LENNA FDN INC DBA LENNA FOUNDATION ($18,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Community Music Project does
Mission
The organization's mission is "to build community by providing educational opportunities and encouraging participation in music expression through programs for composers, performers, and listeners of all ages and skill levels in a variety of musical styles."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Children's music studio holds classes year round based on the musikgarten curriculum for children (newborn to age 5) and their caregivers to develop musicality and musical literacy in children as early as possible, nurture and develop a child's innate love of music, and allow opportunities for families to share musical activities together. Over 1,300 children and adults have participated in this program.
$14,275 spent34% of program spendingCmp chorale is open without audition to people of all ages interested in singing and joining in creating a feeling of togetherness in a collective musical endeavor. It currently performs two concerts a year and has over 80 members. Its repertoire includes many choral masterworks, sacred anthems and secular/pops compositions.
$11,214 spent27% of program spendingChautauqua chamber singers is an audition based group that typically performs three to five concerts a year including the traditional "twelfth night" concert. Their repertoire spans elizabethan to 21st century music, classical to pop.
$16,153 spent39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,642.
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 $72k to $66k (−8%).
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 COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT’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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $2k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 PROJECT’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
COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 70% · 2019 85% · 2020 96% · 2021 84% · 2022 87% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 PROJECT's revenue fell 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT
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.
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 COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT: 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 PROJECT?
- COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,558 to it, the largest being REGINALD A & ELIZABETH S LENNA FDN INC DBA LENNA FOUNDATION ($18,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $49,558 in grants to COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT?
- REGINALD A & ELIZABETH S LENNA FDN INC DBA LENNA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECT 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