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FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC

FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$220k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$66k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What First Coast Community Music School Inc does

Mission

The mission of the first coast community music school is to serve as a non-profit, non degree-granting institution dedicated to bringing high quality professional music instruction to students of all ages, from a broad spectrum of the community in order to enrich the cultural life of the greater jacksonville community.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

Program

The lessons further the mission of providing the highest quality musical instructions for all ages and abilities or preventing community deterioration, juvenile delinquency, relief to the underserved and the advancement of education in the jacksonville community by providing mentorship to young adults through music education.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($171k) Expenses 100 ($196k) Net assets 100 ($162k)2018 Revenue 129 ($220k) Expenses 159 ($311k) Net assets 41 ($66k)
20172018
Revenue (129)Expenses (159)Net assets (41)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $164k to $74k (−55%).

$164k
$74k
20172018
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$25k
’17
−$91k
’18
2.3
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $1k.

From the IRS filings of FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL 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

FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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

FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.

NC
FL

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

’17
’18
Florida out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL 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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 37%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL 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 FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC?
FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,500 in grants to FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC.
Who is the largest funder of FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC?
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST COAST COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), 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