Wisconsin · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS
FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,230 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($2,230). 1 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Oconomowoc Area Foundation Inclocal
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio match
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $509 → $447.
1 of 1 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 FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS'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. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Oconomowoc Area Foundation InclocalWI · funds 50 organizations near you
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Performing Arts Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Save the Music Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dorothy Richard Starling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Minnesota Arts Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chorus Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fanangel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
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 FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS?
- FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS (Wisconsin) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,230 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($2,230). 1 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 FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,230 in grants to FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MHS MUSIC MAKERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing