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FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC

FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,261 to it, the largest being Motorola Solutions Foundation ($900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$64k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Fremd Instrumental Association Inc does

Mission

Support the music educationi of fremd high school students

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Marching band competition fees and related trip costs for 100+ students

    $7,838 spent
    35% of program spending
  2. Funds used for various expense that support the music department, including instrument supplies and repairs, instrument replacement, recruitment, and sheet music.

    $11,920 spent
    54% of program spending
  3. Add to student musical experience and knowledge through music contests and outsourced instructors

    $2,460 spent
    11% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,218.

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 ($80k) Expenses 100 ($76k) Net assets 100 ($94k)2018 Revenue 97 ($77k) Expenses 109 ($83k) Net assets 94 ($88k)2019 Revenue 82 ($65k) Expenses 118 ($90k) Net assets 69 ($64k)2020 Revenue 106 ($85k) Expenses 83 ($63k) Net assets 94 ($88k)2021 Revenue 27 ($21k) Expenses 46 ($35k) Net assets 79 ($74k)2022 Revenue 88 ($70k) Expenses 64 ($49k) Net assets 102 ($95k)2023 Revenue 66 ($52k) Expenses 97 ($73k) Net assets 79 ($74k)2024 Revenue 76 ($61k) Expenses 79 ($60k) Net assets 80 ($75k)2025 Revenue 13 ($10k) Expenses 29 ($22k) Net assets 68 ($64k)
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Revenue (13)Expenses (29)Net assets (68)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $89k to $64k (−28%).

$95k
$89k
$64k
$88k
$74k
$95k
$74k
$75k
$64k
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

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

$4k
’17
−$6k
’18
−$25k
’19
$22k
’20
−$14k
’21
$21k
’22
−$21k
’23
$882
’24
−$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $900 → $60.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION 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

FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 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

86% of FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NC

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

’19
’21
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC?
FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,261 to it, the largest being Motorola Solutions Foundation ($900). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,261 in grants to FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC?
Motorola Solutions Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FREMD INSTRUMENTAL ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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