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FRIENDS OF MUSIC

FRIENDS OF MUSIC (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($6). 0 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
$85k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6
Net assets
$87k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Friends of Music does

Mission

Friends of Music is a community association. We brought six musical concerts to columbus, ne area during fiscal 2025. Area residents can purchase a membership to attend our concerts. We also solicite donations to keep the concerts affordable. This is our only program. We have over 650 members.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Friends of Music is a community association. We brought six musical concerts to the columbus, ne area during fiscal 2024 (june 2023 - april 2024). Area residents can purchase a membership to attend our concerts. We also solicite donations to keep the concerts affordable. This is our only program. We have over 650 members.

    $12,910 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,910.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($34k)2019 Revenue 79 ($47k) Expenses 92 ($48k) Net assets 97 ($33k)2020 Revenue 88 ($52k) Expenses 77 ($40k) Net assets 133 ($46k)2021 Revenue 47 ($28k) Expenses 27 ($14k) Net assets 175 ($60k)2023 Revenue 124 ($74k) Expenses 97 ($51k) Net assets 173 ($60k)2024 Revenue 14 ($8k) Expenses 25 ($13k) Net assets 191 ($66k)2025 Revenue 143 ($85k) Expenses 124 ($64k) Net assets 252 ($87k)
2018201920202021202320242025
Revenue (143)Expenses (124)Net assets (252)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $66k to $87k (+32%).

$34k
$33k
$46k
$60k
$60k
$66k
$87k
2018201920202021202320242025
Total assets

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of FRIENDS OF MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’18
−$1k
’19
$12k
’20
$14k
’21
$23k
’23
−$4k
’24
$21k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

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 MUSIC’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 MUSIC'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. $6 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

Against its field

FRIENDS OF MUSIC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF MUSIC

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 Nebraska

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF MUSIC?
FRIENDS OF MUSIC (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($6). 0 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 MUSIC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6 in grants to FRIENDS OF MUSIC.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF MUSIC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF MUSIC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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