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Community School of Music and Arts Inc

Community School of Music and Arts Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,600 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($29,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$459k
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$57k
Grants received
$111k
Net assets
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

Community School of Music and Arts Inc's revenue grew 16% between 2018 and 2024.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($394k) Expenses 100 ($393k) Net assets 100 ($412k)2019 Revenue 99 ($391k) Expenses 112 ($439k) Net assets 88 ($364k)2020 Revenue 87 ($342k) Expenses 87 ($343k) Net assets 88 ($363k)2021 Revenue 83 ($327k) Expenses 82 ($324k) Net assets 89 ($366k)2022 Revenue 63 ($248k) Expenses 89 ($348k) Net assets 64 ($265k)2023 Revenue 102 ($400k) Expenses 111 ($435k) Net assets 57 ($234k)2024 Revenue 116 ($459k) Expenses 148 ($582k) Net assets 27 ($111k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (116)Expenses (148)Net assets (27)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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 16% · 2019 10% · 2020 23% · 2021 38% · 2022 15% · 2023 27% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

46% of Community School of Music and Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$938
18
$48k
19
$1k
20
$3k
21
$100k
22
$34k
23
$124k
24
1.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $12k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)72% 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 School of Music and Arts 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

Community School of Music and Arts Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

72% 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 School of Music and Arts Inc.

52%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 76%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.

Where its funders are

72% of Community School of Music and Arts 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 $16k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
DE

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.

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 6 funders put you under-funded 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.

Organizations like Community School of Music and Arts Inc

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 New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 33%Fundraising 4%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

69%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community School of Music and Arts 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 Community School of Music and Arts Inc?
Community School of Music and Arts Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,600 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ($29,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Community School of Music and Arts Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $56,600 in grants to Community School of Music and Arts Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Community School of Music and Arts Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $29,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Community School of Music and Arts 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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