California · Nonprofit
Harmony Project
Harmony Project (California) receives grants from 174 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,115,992 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($2,630,000). 111 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 174
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Harmony Project does
Mission
To promote the health growth & development of children through the study, practice, & performance of music-To build healthier communities by investing in the positive development of children through music-To develop children as musical ambassadors of peace, hope, & understanding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Harmony Project provides children from low-income families with a rigorous music education program, including instruments, weekly instrumental music lessons, orchestra and choir programs, performance opportunities, field trips to classical music concerts, and a range of supporting resources. All services are provided at no cost to students. A vast majority of parents report improvements in their childrens grades, behavior, mood, and health since joining the program. College attendance is encouraged through a partnership with CA community colleges, and a scholarship program for its graduates. Other organizations also assist Harmony Project in its mission by donating space and facilities for music instruction and performance. The rental value of donated space was $242,000 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025.
$5,025,302 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,025,302.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $4.4M (+201%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 4% · 2020 6% · 2021 7% · 2022 3% · 2023 13% · 2024 6% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Harmony Project’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Natalie Jackson
Executive Director
Board chair
Lisa K Edwards Delgado
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 50 funders to 76 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $3.2M.
18 of 174 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Harmony Project’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 174 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
Harmony Project has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
28% 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 Harmony Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 27% · 2019 12% · 2020 9% · 2021 27% · 2022 26% · 2023 29% — growing more concentrated.
“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
49% of Harmony Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
88% of Harmony Project's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Harmony Project has grown faster than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Harmony Project receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $315k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$315k
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 Harmony Project
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Harmony Project: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Harmony Project?
- Harmony Project (California) receives grants from 174 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,115,992 to it, the largest being PERENCHIO FOUNDATION ($2,630,000). 111 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Harmony Project have?
- IRS filings report 174 organizations giving $19,115,992 in grants to Harmony Project, 111 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Harmony Project?
- PERENCHIO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,630,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Harmony Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 174 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