Massachusetts · Nonprofit
EMMANUEL MUSIC INC
EMMANUEL MUSIC INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,878,040 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,480,750). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $241k
What Emmanuel Music Inc does
Mission
Emmanuel music engages with audiences and musicians to explore the enduring questions of our shared human experience, building on our core commitment to the music of j.s. Bach. Expanding on a 55-year plus tradition of weekly bach cantatas in a liturgical setting, we perform concert repertoire from baroque to contemporary in large and small ensembles, inviting audiences to explore and discover familiar and unfamiliar masterworks. The commitment and discipline of performing together more than 50 times a year nurtures a core of established and emerging musicians and fosters unparalleled artistic excellence. In our outreach we are committed to training the next generation of musicians, mentoring young students, and inspiring broad audiences in free concerts, lectures, and master classes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Emmanuel music, deeply committed to the enduring legacy of j.s. Bach continues to impact its audience and musicians through a blend of performance, scholarship, and community engagement. The 2024/2025 season exemplified this with our foundational and ongoing cantata series, which presents a different bach cantata each sunday as part of the worship service at emmanuel epsicopal church. The series offers free in-person and livestreamed access, and includes premieres of new works through our motet commissioning project. The lindsey chapel series provided six free noontime performances by solo musicians, including the complete english suites for keyboard by bach. In 2024-2025, emmanuel music also continued critical community engagement with our partners at the boston public library, boston arts academy, and project step. In addition, we offered numerous public lectures, discussions, and performances held as part of our bach institute january intensive young artist program. This multifaceted programming approach spanning regular liturgical performances, a dedicatedmainstage concert series, educational initiatives, and access to online intellectual resources through our bach notes and…
$748,877 spent$30,368 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $748,877.
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.
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 $619k to $294k (−53%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 20% · 2022 13% · 2023 6% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Vanessa Holroyd
Executive director as of aug 2025
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $135k → $330k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 EMMANUEL MUSIC INC’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
EMMANUEL MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 EMMANUEL MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 51% · 2019 65% · 2020 42% · 2021 44% · 2022 42% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“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
56% of EMMANUEL MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
81% of EMMANUEL MUSIC INC'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 $753k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding EMMANUEL MUSIC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $176k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$176k
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 EMMANUEL MUSIC INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 EMMANUEL 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 EMMANUEL MUSIC INC?
- EMMANUEL MUSIC INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,878,040 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,480,750). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMMANUEL MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,878,040 in grants to EMMANUEL MUSIC INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMMANUEL MUSIC INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,480,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMMANUEL MUSIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing