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GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC

GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,209 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($168,449). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$803k
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$861k
Net assets
$-258137
13/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Gasparilla Music Foundation Inc does

Mission

To nurture and promote the culture of tampa bay by presenting a spectacular gathering of musicians and performers that leads to greater awareness, arts education and the continued urban renewal of downtown tampa.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Gmf productions provided over 400 paid performance opportunities for local artists through partnerships with hillsborough county area transit (hart), water street tampa and other organizations.

    $736,901 spent$623,390 earned by the program
    97% of program spending

  2. Recycled tunes program provided over 300 new and refurbished instruments to local schools and music programs. The program also provided supplies, strings, repairs and other support to teachers and classrooms.

    $21,305 spent
    3% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $758,206.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($316k)2018 Revenue 108 ($1.3M) Expenses 111 ($1.3M) Net assets 110 ($347k)2019 Revenue 155 ($1.9M) Expenses 140 ($1.6M) Net assets 197 ($622k)2020 Revenue 145 ($1.8M) Expenses 168 ($1.9M) Net assets 143 ($453k)2021 Revenue 21 ($256k) Expenses 34 ($389k) Net assets 101 ($319k)2022 Revenue 456 ($5.5M) Expenses 417 ($4.8M) Net assets 318 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 165 ($2.0M) Expenses 236 ($2.7M) Net assets 96 ($304k)2024 Revenue 200 ($2.4M) Expenses 246 ($2.8M) Net assets -29 ($-91547)2025 Revenue 66 ($803k) Expenses 84 ($970k) Net assets -82 ($-258137)
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Revenue (66)Expenses (84)Net assets (-82)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $385k to $1.1M (+176%).

$326k
$351k
$626k
$492k
$385k
$1.1M
$1.0M
$397k
$199k
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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
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 4% · 2020 8% · 2021 21% · 2022 28% · 2023 17% · 2024 11% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

22% of GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$66k
’17
$31k
’18
$274k
’19
−$169k
’20
−$134k
’21
$751k
’22
−$700k
’23
−$395k
’24
−$167k
’25
1.7
months of
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.

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Listed141311109991010
Joined·+4+2+0+4+0+1+1+2
No longer listed·54150102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $93k → $128k.

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total
Lightning Foundationunclassified
$22k
funders
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5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION 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

GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

61% 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 GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC.

20%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 38% · 2019 54% · 2020 52% · 2021 45% · 2022 47% · 2023 23% — 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

16% of GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

81% of GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

NY
DE
NC
FL

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $428k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.

Federal$15k
grants $15kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$15k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC

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In Florida

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Nationally

Gasparilla Festival of the Arts Inc87%Groton Hill Music Inc80%Chelsea Music Festival Corporation79%Grand Teton Music Festival Inc79%Georgia Music Foundation Inc79%Gasparilla Distance Classic Association Inc79%The Guitar Center Music Foundation79%Artistic Resources in Action Foundation79%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC?
GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $861,209 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($168,449). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $861,209 in grants to GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $168,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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