California · Nonprofit
DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND
DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,313 to it, the largest being RALPH FINGERLE EDUCATIONAL AWARD CLAPP ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $111k
- Net assets
- $256k
What Desert Winds Freedom Band does
Mission
The Band was formed in 2002 as a not-for-profit organization for the purpose ofdeveloping a quality musical band open to men and women that are gay, lesbian,heterosexual, and all other sexual orientations. Through its musical performances,the band makes a positive contribution to the community by providing educational,cultural, and social enrichment for its members and audiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization performs several programs annually in palm springs california with it's symphonic band, jazz band, and various small ensembles.
$145,481 spent$74,926 earned by the program91% of program spendingThe organization provides financial assistance in the form of scholarships to support high school seniors in the coachella valley.
$8,000 spent5% of program spendingMIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL WORKSHOPS - Each spring the band sponsors a guest composer or conductor for our spring concert. The guest composer or conductor works with up to 6 school bands in the Coachella Valley to provide students a rare opportunity to study music by the person who wrote it. The program is in it's 7th year now and has been a tremendous success.
$5,848 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $159,329.
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 $154k to $199k (+29%).
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.
56% of DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $240 → $174.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND’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
DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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 DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND: 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 DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND?
- DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,313 to it, the largest being RALPH FINGERLE EDUCATIONAL AWARD CLAPP ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $111,313 in grants to DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND?
- RALPH FINGERLE EDUCATIONAL AWARD CLAPP is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESERT WINDS FREEDOM BAND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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