Florida · Nonprofit
GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC
GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,201,026 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($2,351,719). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC has grown faster than half of the 922 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared funders
- Save the Music Foundationportfolio match
- The Cma Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2020 18% · 2021 22% · 2022 67% · 2023 58% · 2024 28% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $256k → $2.0M.
24 of 120 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 120 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
GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
58% 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 GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 32% · 2019 22% · 2020 32% · 2021 39% · 2022 22% · 2023 13% — 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
46% of GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
58% of GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION 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. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 statesis 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. Your 120 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared fundersIL · backs 118 organizations that share your funders
- Save the Music Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mockingbird Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bbx Capital Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert R McCormick Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 426 organizations near you
- Circle of Service Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 120 organizations that share your funders
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 93 organizations that share your funders
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 139 organizations that share your funders
- Polk Bros Foundation Incshared fundersIL · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 85 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $110k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$110k
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 GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: 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 GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC?
- GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 120 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,201,026 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($2,351,719). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 120 organizations giving $11,201,026 in grants to GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC?
- THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,351,719 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 120funders 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