Maryland · Nonprofit
DMV MUSIC ACADEMY
DMV MUSIC ACADEMY (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,850 to it, the largest being GIVIO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($7,350). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Dmv Music Academy does
Mission
The DMV Music Academy exists to expose, engage, and enrich young people through the transformative power of music.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2023, we became a multisite operation - expanding to four locations throughout the DMV region (Hyattsville, Takoma Park, DC, and Baltimore) serving 87 students. We have also expanded our school year programming as we started weekly drumline programs at 4 different DC Public Schools serving over 112 students weekly. This year, we added a K-8 school in Baltimore City and are currently in discussions with potential donors to expand the number of schools we serve in DC and Baltimore in the 2024-25 school year. Additionally, we launched a wellness drumming initiative for veterans in the DC metro region in partnership with the Department of Veteran Affairs for Prince George's County, Maryland.
$11,000 spentof which $8,100 as grants47% of program spendingAs we finish our ninth year of existence, we can proudly announce that our organization has helped get 41 students into college with music scholarships. In addition, we have expanded our school residencies in Washington DC - now partnering with seven different schools, helping to create and further develop music programs in underserved communities.
$12,350 spentof which $9,100 as grants53% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $23,350.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $5k to $26k (+459%).
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.
59% of DMV MUSIC ACADEMY’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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
S Kathryn Allen
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 DMV MUSIC ACADEMY’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
DMV MUSIC ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
100% 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 DMV MUSIC ACADEMY.
“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
62% of DMV MUSIC ACADEMY'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Maryland funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DMV MUSIC ACADEMY has grown faster than half of the 335 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like DMV MUSIC ACADEMY
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 Maryland
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DMV MUSIC ACADEMY: 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 DMV MUSIC ACADEMY?
- DMV MUSIC ACADEMY (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,850 to it, the largest being GIVIO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($7,350). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DMV MUSIC ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,850 in grants to DMV MUSIC ACADEMY.
- Who is the largest funder of DMV MUSIC ACADEMY?
- GIVIO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DMV MUSIC ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2023–2026), and the filings of 2 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