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Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation

Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,725 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VERDUGOS ($14,077). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$206k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$17k
Net assets
$333k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation does

Mission

Provide support for the various activities of the Crescenta Valley High School instrumental music program.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Particpation in band festivals and review competitions.

    $49,793 spentof which $49,793 as grants
    46% of program spending
  2. Equipment and Instrument Purchases/Repairs

    $32,679 spentof which $32,679 as grants
    30% of program spending
  3. Band Camps and Student Training

    $19,205 spentof which $19,205 as grants
    18% of program spending
  4. Student Support and Awards

    $6,879 spentof which $6,879 as grants
    6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $108,556.

02The 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 ($74k) Expenses 100 ($61k) Net assets 100 ($99k)2018 Revenue 205 ($152k) Expenses 265 ($161k) Net assets 91 ($91k)2019 Revenue 203 ($151k) Expenses 233 ($142k) Net assets 101 ($100k)2020 Revenue 249 ($185k) Expenses 235 ($143k) Net assets 143 ($141k)2021 Revenue 159 ($118k) Expenses 219 ($133k) Net assets 127 ($126k)2022 Revenue 281 ($208k) Expenses 260 ($158k) Net assets 178 ($176k)2024 Revenue 331 ($246k) Expenses 374 ($227k) Net assets 241 ($239k)2025 Revenue 278 ($206k) Expenses 184 ($112k) Net assets 336 ($333k)
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Revenue (278)Expenses (184)Net assets (336)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $239k to $333k (+40%).

$99k
$91k
$100k
$141k
$126k
$176k
$239k
$333k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

63% of Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
−$9k
’18
$9k
’19
$42k
’20
−$15k
’21
$50k
’22
$19k
’24
$95k
’25
36
months of
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.

20192020202220242025
Listed77878
Joined·+4··+4
No longer listed·4··3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $26 → $474.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
2
3
2
2

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation’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

Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99% 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 Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation.

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% — 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

99% of Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation'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 $117 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

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

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’21
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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve35.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation?
Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,725 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VERDUGOS ($14,077). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $16,725 in grants to Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VERDUGOS is the largest funder on record, with $14,077 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Crescenta Valley Instrumental Music Foundation 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 3 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