Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FOSTERING MUSIC INC
FOSTERING MUSIC INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,198 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $16k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $0
What Fostering Music Inc does
Mission
Provide music lessons to children in foster care.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We provided instruments to six children in 2020 and ongoing music lessons to 15 children.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $41 → $20k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 FOSTERING 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
FOSTERING MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
80% 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 FOSTERING MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
80% of FOSTERING 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FOSTERING MUSIC INC receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,352 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOSTERING 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 FOSTERING MUSIC INC?
- FOSTERING MUSIC INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,198 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOSTERING MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $25,198 in grants to FOSTERING MUSIC INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOSTERING MUSIC INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOSTERING MUSIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), 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