Florida · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC
FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,163 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($110,775). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $384k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $392k
- Net assets
- $423k
What Friends of South Florida Music Inc does
Mission
Friends of south florida music (fsfm) promotes music education and development for children of all ages and abilities in underserved areas of miami-dade county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The music fundamentals program provided free weekly 30 minute music classes at twelve miami-dade schools, reaching over 1,400 students. All schools are either title 1 or within the title 1 boundary, and over 90% of the participating students are enrolled in the federal free-lunch program. Children ages birth to 18 years of age received age-appropriate music instruction, including activities such as singing, dancing and movement, manipulating items such as scarves and hoops, and musical instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingles, egg shakers, bell, and drums. Teachers utilize call and response, singing, rhythmic and tonal patterns, moving to music, and playing instruments. Accommodations are made for students with special needs and disabilities, and any necessary modifications and/or adaptations are done so that all students can fully participate. Children develop self-regulation and focus and develop their social-emotional skills through musical activities and class interactions, providing them with foundations that can help them with their academic and interpersonal growth.
$161,949 spent$34,358 earned by the program94% of program spendingFsfm organized back-to-school bookbag and santa's workshop toy giveaway events at participating schools to support students and parents.
$8,030 spent5% of program spendingFsfm provided needs-based scholarships for applicants to send their children to music classes run by our teaching staff.
$2,000 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $171,979.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $313k to $433k (+38%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 20% · 2023 30% · 2024 3% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $500 → $102k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 SOUTH FLORIDA 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
FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
60% 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 FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 95% · 2020 51% · 2021 98% · 2022 49% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
60% of FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC
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In Florida
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC?
- FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,163 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($110,775). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $392,163 in grants to FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $110,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA MUSIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 14 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