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COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS

COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS (Rhode Island) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,272,607 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,873,317). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.9M
Revenue FY2025
70
Funders on record
$14M
Grants received
$20M
Net assets
50/70 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−44% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 94 ($1.3M) Expenses 109 ($1.2M) Net assets 108 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 300 ($4.1M) Expenses 123 ($1.4M) Net assets 324 ($4.1M)2020 Revenue 157 ($2.1M) Expenses 122 ($1.3M) Net assets 386 ($4.9M)2021 Revenue 379 ($5.2M) Expenses 117 ($1.3M) Net assets 696 ($8.9M)2022 Revenue 521 ($7.1M) Expenses 126 ($1.4M) Net assets 1115 ($14M)2023 Revenue 173 ($2.4M) Expenses 571 ($6.3M) Net assets 840 ($11M)2024 Revenue 973 ($13M) Expenses 341 ($3.7M) Net assets 1585 ($20M)2025 Revenue 143 ($1.9M) Expenses 256 ($2.8M) Net assets 1532 ($20M)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (256)Net assets (1532)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 7% · 2019 3% · 2020 29% · 2021 4% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% · 2024 3% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

69% of COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$265k
17
$89k
18
$2.7M
19
$796k
20
$3.9M
21
$5.7M
22
$3.9M
23
$9.5M
24
$861k
25
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $269k → $1.4M.

8 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)53% 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 MUSICWORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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 MUSICWORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

56% 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 MUSICWORKS.

34%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 17% · 2019 28% · 2020 33% · 2021 39% · 2022 57% · 2023 21%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.

How long its funders stay

61% of COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

53% of COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS'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 $6.8M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 16 states.

NH
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 70 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $605k on record.

Federal$605k
grants $605kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$605k

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 MUSICWORKS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Rhode Island

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 10%Fundraising 7%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Cmw Support Corporation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: 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 MUSICWORKS?
COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS (Rhode Island) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,272,607 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($4,873,317). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS have?
IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $14,272,607 in grants to COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS?
THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,873,317 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 70funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing