Texas · Nonprofit
Diaz Music Institute
Diaz Music Institute (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,837 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($174,337). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $338k
- Net assets
- $224k
What Diaz Music Institute does
Mission
Diaz Music Institute (DMI) is dedicated to preserving and advancing Latin music traditions throuogh high-quality music educaiton,mentorship and performamnce opportunities. DMI serves students of all backgrounds, especially thos with limited access to arts education, helping them build confidence, develop musical skills, and explore future educaitonal and career opportunities in music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
After School Programs: Our after school program engages students in a dynamic culturally diverse music curriculum tht encourages a healthy balance between academics and performanrce. The program fosters self-reliance, intrinsic motivation and critical thinking through active listening, dialogue, and mentorship.
$0 spent0% of program spendingSummer Camp: Workshops engage students ina diverse music program when they wil learn the importance of balancing school with music performance. Students learn about music but the focus is to help students become self reliant and intrically motivated. The program empowers kids with an approach to education that involves listening and dialogue in an attempt to bring critical awareness. Each of the programs have some uniquie experience that will elevate student performance and enhance life skills.
$70,000 spentof which $60,000 as grants$3,500 earned by the program78% of program spendingNoche Caliente (Hot Night) is an exciting eventing ow world-class music and entertainment celebrating the richness of Latin music and cultural traditions. Held at Houstons iconic Miller Outdoor Theater, the program features internationall recognized gues artist performing alongside Calients, Diaz Music Institutes award winning youth ensemble. This is a free event for the city of Houston.
$20,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants$2,500 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $90,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
0% of Diaz Music Institute’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Elizabeth Diaz
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $41k → $52k.
From the IRS filings of Diaz Music Institute’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
Diaz Music Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Diaz Music Institute.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 46% · 2023 83% — 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
81% of Diaz Music Institute's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Diaz Music Institute has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding Diaz Music Institute receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $169k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$169k
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 Diaz Music Institute
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Diaz Music Institute: 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 Diaz Music Institute?
- Diaz Music Institute (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $337,837 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($174,337). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Diaz Music Institute have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $337,837 in grants to Diaz Music Institute, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Diaz Music Institute?
- Houston Arts Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $174,337 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Diaz Music Institute find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), 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