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HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX

HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,646 to it, the largest being BURTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($65,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$285k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$334k
Net assets
$59k
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Harmony Project Phoenix does

Mission

Harmony project harnesses the transformative power of music to increase access to higher education for underserved students by removing systemic barriers to achievement through academic and social support.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Harmony Project Phoenix provides free, comprehensive music education and youth development programming for underserved students. The program includes access to musical instruments, weekly instrumental music instruction, orchestra and choir ensembles, performance opportunities, field trips to live music concerts, and supportive resources for students and families. Through long-term participation, students build musical skills, confidence, discipline, social connection, and a stronger sense of belonging. Harmony Project Phoenix also partners with schools, community organizations, and higher education institutions to support academic success, encourage college attendance, and expand access to opportunity for students who face systemic barriers.

    $226,464 spent$71,244 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $226,464.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($251k) Expenses 100 ($226k) Net assets 100 ($56k)2023 Revenue 128 ($320k) Expenses 121 ($273k) Net assets 186 ($103k)2024 Revenue 95 ($240k) Expenses 136 ($308k) Net assets 63 ($35k)2025 Revenue 113 ($285k) Expenses 115 ($260k) Net assets 106 ($59k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (113)Expenses (115)Net assets (106)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 2023 to 2024, from $113k to $48k (−58%).

$65k
$113k
$48k
$65k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

75% of HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’22
$48k
’23
−$68k
’24
$25k
’25
2.7
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.

Board chair

David Bernstein

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed5557
Joined·+0+0+2
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $3k → $91k.

2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 PHOENIX’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

HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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

75% 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 PHOENIX.

19%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 58% · 2023 55% — 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

50% of HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 5 states in all.

NY
CA
AZ
NC
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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

Government funding HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.

Federal$30k
grants $30kcontracts $0
24
26
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$30k

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 PHOENIX

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
86%
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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AZ

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX: 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 PHOENIX?
HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,646 to it, the largest being BURTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($65,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $333,646 in grants to HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX?
BURTON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARMONY PROJECT PHOENIX find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 15 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