Virginia · Nonprofit
HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC
HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,237,895 to it, the largest being THE GARY AND PENNIE ABRAMSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($422,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $14k
What Heifetz International Music Institute Inc does
Mission
The mission of heifetz is to develop the expressive potential of performers through innovative performance & communication training. The institute trains musicians to redefine the concert experience by conveying the emotion of their music and exploring their creative potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Student education in music and the performing arts.
$1,787,803 spent$923,614 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,787,803.
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 $143k to $537k (+275%).
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: 2018 1% · 2021 7% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Benjamin Roe
President & CEO
Board chair
Bruce Rosenblum
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $89k → $131k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE 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
HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 43% · 2019 18% · 2020 33% · 2021 43% · 2022 59% · 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
48% of HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $353k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$200k
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 HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC?
- HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,237,895 to it, the largest being THE GARY AND PENNIE ABRAMSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($422,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,237,895 in grants to HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC?
- THE GARY AND PENNIE ABRAMSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $422,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 27 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