Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc
Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,386 to it, the largest being EARL AND EUGENIA QUIRK FOUNDATION INC ($22,294). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $227k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $980k
What Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc does
Mission
We are dedicated to "Making History Live" for audiences across America by performing music of America's Civil War era on antique brass band instruments, and to preserve the musical heritage of that period by collecting and restoring those instruments.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Heritage Military Music Foundation sponsors the 1st Brigade Band. The original 1st Brigade Band was formed in 1864 and served with General Sherman during the American Civil War. The current 1st Brigade Band was formed in 1964, committing to two primary goals - to re-create to the fullest extent possible all aspects of the military and community brass bands of the 1860s and to do so in a manner that is entertaining and accessible to the modern audience. Attired in period uniforms and gowns, the Band's musicians, color guard and vivandieres take their audiences back to the 1860's and breathes life into history by performing authentic music on actual antique instruments. Musical selections are combined with narrated accounts, anecdotes, and tales of the times. The Foundation has acquired and maintains an extensive, exceptional collection of rare antique brass, woodwind and percussion instruments, one of the finest, most extensive playing collections in the Nation. It has also developed a fine library of music selected from the books of Union and Confederate bands and from manuscripts and original sheet music of the period. The band has recorded fifteen volumes of historic music.…
$30,563 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $30,563.
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 2023 to 2024, from $826k to $1.1M (+27%).
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 6% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $19 → $8k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Heritage Military Music Foundation 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
Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 46% · 2022 90% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111 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.
Against its field
Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Heritage Military Music Foundation 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
45% 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 Heritage Military Music Foundation 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 Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc?
- Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,386 to it, the largest being EARL AND EUGENIA QUIRK FOUNDATION INC ($22,294). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $38,386 in grants to Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc?
- EARL AND EUGENIA QUIRK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,294 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heritage Military Music Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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