Minnesota · Nonprofit
DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION
DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,141 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($170,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $362k
- Net assets
- $115k
What Diverse Emerging Music Organization does
Mission
Founded in 1999 as the diverse arts and music foundation, the Diverse Emerging Music Organization (demo) is a minnesota 501(c)3 non-profit corporation whose mission is "sustaining and promoting minnesota's independent music legacy". We do this by providing a performance space for local artists to introduce their music,curating a small museum and collaboration space focused on local music, and sponsoring the minnesota music archive. About the minnesota music archive project: the goal of the minnesota music archive project is to create a comprehensive digital archive of every independent and small commercial recording ever released by minnesota musicians, preserving these recordings for future generations and sustaining minnesota's rich musical legacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Support the preservation and archival of local Minnesota music.
$66,227 spentof which $5,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,227.
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. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $74k to $115k (+55%).
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.
98% of DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Mitch Thompson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $101k → $20k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION’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
DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
78% of DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION'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 $81k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $282k 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
DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION: 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 DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION?
- DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,141 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($170,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $362,141 in grants to DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIVERSE EMERGING MUSIC ORGANIZATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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