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EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC

EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC (New York) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,912,326 to it, the largest being THE MEREDITH AND ROSEMARY WILLSON CHARIT (AKA THE MUSIC MAN FOUNDATION) ($3,500,000). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.6M
Revenue FY2025
118
Funders on record
$12M
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
68/118 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 92%

Against its field

EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC's funding base is broadening — from 30 funders to 47 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−35% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($3.5M)2018 Revenue 92 ($5.2M) Expenses 109 ($5.4M) Net assets 94 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 99 ($5.6M) Expenses 115 ($5.7M) Net assets 90 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 82 ($4.6M) Expenses 123 ($6.1M) Net assets 48 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 80 ($4.5M) Expenses 85 ($4.2M) Net assets 60 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 129 ($7.3M) Expenses 80 ($4.0M) Net assets 150 ($5.2M)2023 Revenue 77 ($4.3M) Expenses 105 ($5.2M) Net assets 122 ($4.2M)2024 Revenue 135 ($7.6M) Expenses 112 ($5.6M) Net assets 182 ($6.3M)2025 Revenue 82 ($4.6M) Expenses 126 ($6.3M) Net assets 134 ($4.6M)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (126)Net assets (134)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 8% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 12% · 2024 8% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

54% of EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$655k
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$218k
18
$156k
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$1.5M
20
$282k
21
$3.3M
22
$868k
23
$2.0M
24
$1.6M
25
2.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $4.0M.

16 of 118 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 EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 118 funders by total. 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

EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

25% 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 EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC.

29%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 50% · 2019 36% · 2020 40% · 2021 64% · 2022 45% · 2023 75%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.

How long its funders stay

35% of EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 19 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 118 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $335k on record.

Federal$335k
grants $335kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$335k

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 EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 8%Fundraising 13%

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Education Through Music USA Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: 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 EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC?
EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC (New York) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,912,326 to it, the largest being THE MEREDITH AND ROSEMARY WILLSON CHARIT (AKA THE MUSIC MAN FOUNDATION) ($3,500,000). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC have?
IRS filings report 118 organizations giving $11,912,326 in grants to EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC?
THE MEREDITH AND ROSEMARY WILLSON CHARIT (AKA THE MUSIC MAN FOUNDATION) is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 118funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing