Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GROTON HILL MUSIC INC
GROTON HILL MUSIC INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,883,079 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($118,155,830). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $146M
- Net assets
- $246M
What Groton Hill Music Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to share the transformative power of music through teaching, performing and giving music generously when there is need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The music education program served approximately 2,000 students of all ages and abilities with a faculty of professional artists and educators through private instruction, group lessons and ensembles for all instruments and voice, in many genres including classical, jazz, folk, popular, celtic, and traditional music. The organization is committed to providing affordable music education and also has been able to provide $92,927 in scholarship aid.
$6,377,570 spentof which $92,927 as grants$2,748,558 earned by the program51% of program spendingThe organization's performance program served over 48,000 people through performances by professional high caliber performing artists in many genres of music including classical, jazz, blue grass, country, and traditional music as well as performances by the orgnizations professional vista philharmonic orchestra led by conductor bruce hangen.
$5,771,959 spent$3,260,840 earned by the program46% of program spendingThe organization's community engagement programs serve its community through free music school programs in under resourced public school districts and in boys and girls clubs, free professional concerts that serve its community which includes senior citizens, residents of assisted living facilities and families, and bedside singing by its threshold singers for those in hospice care or at the end of life.
$347,046 spent$2,500 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,496,575.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $128M to $185M (+45%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of GROTON HILL MUSIC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Fiorentino
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Simon Jones
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $10M → $15M.
13 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 GROTON HILL MUSIC INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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
GROTON HILL MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 GROTON HILL MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 78% · 2022 88% · 2023 95% — 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
38% of GROTON HILL MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
99% of GROTON HILL MUSIC INC'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. Of the $1.0M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GROTON HILL MUSIC INC receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $146M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GROTON HILL MUSIC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $143k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$143k
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 GROTON HILL MUSIC INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GROTON HILL MUSIC INC?
- GROTON HILL MUSIC INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,883,079 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($118,155,830). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GROTON HILL MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $145,883,079 in grants to GROTON HILL MUSIC INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROTON HILL MUSIC INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $118,155,830 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROTON HILL MUSIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 47 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing