New York · Nonprofit
FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,840 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($106,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $119k
- Net assets
- $91k
What Five Boroughs Music Festival Inc does
Mission
Five Boroughs Music Festival Inc. Is organized for educational and charitable purposes, specifically to develop and conduct educational concerts and to provide high-quality musical performances in all five boroughs of new york city.Five Boroughs Music Festival Inc.'s unique purpose is to provide high-caliber chamber music concerts in all five boroughs of new york city (brooklyn, bronx, queens, staten island and manhattan), ratherthan focusing its efforts strictly in manhattan, which is common among organizations that promote appreciation for music in new york city. 5bmf's audiences are comprised of residents of all ages from multiple boroughs of nyc. Between july 1, 2024 and june 30, 2025, five boroughs music festival produced and co-produced 6 full-length concert programs presented over the co
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Birib unionsep. 12, 2024 | flushing town hall, queenssep. 13, 2024 | bronx music hall, bronxbirib union (mike block, cello & vocals; christylez bacon, beatbox, guitar; patricia ligia, electric bass) perform a program blending original music with global influences drawing from brazilian, bluegrass, jazz, classical, hip-hop, funk, and pop.ivalas quartetoct. 17, 2024 | sugar hill museum of art + storytelling, manhattanthe black and latinx ivalas quartet present "fate and yearning," including works by mendelssohn, beethoven, and alvin singleton.
$37,498 spentof which $72,155 as grants100% of program spendingThe new consortnov. 1, 2024 | brooklyn art haus, brooklynnov. 2, 2024 | trinity lutheran church, staten islandvocal chamber ensemble the new consort present "return/revive," featuring: robert white's lamentations of jeremiah, and the world premiere of a new work by jonathan woody that examines the oppression of queer individuals in america.aizuri quartet + kinan azmehfeb. 1, 2025| brooklyn public library, brooklynfeb. 4, 2025 | lang recital hall at hunter college-cuny, manhattanthe renowned aizuri quartet joined by syrian clarinetist-composer kinan azmeh present music and migration, featuring the nyc premiere of layale chaker's 'matrescence.'
$0 spent0% of program spendingOrchestra of st. Luke's five borough tourmar. 25, 2025 | hostos community college art gallery, bronx5bmf presents the bronx leg of osl's "5 borough tour," highlighting music by chinese composer chen yi, performed by musicians from the orchestra alongside two traditional chinese instrumentalists. Toomai string quintetapr. 26, 2025 | bronx river art center, bronxthe toomai string quintet present passos brasileiros, a program of brazilian works highlighting the ensemble's specialization in the music of latin america.toomai string quintet: school residency partnership with belongomay 27, 2025 | public school 384, brooklyn5bmf and school residency organization belongo partner for educational outreach, featuring an interactive performance by the toomai string quintet for more than 200 grade school children at a title I school in bushwick.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,498.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $52k to $90k (+75%).
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.
100% of FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $20k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL 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
FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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 FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 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
100% of FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k 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
FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL 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 New York
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
- FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,840 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($106,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $118,840 in grants to FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $106,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIVE BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL 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.
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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 3 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