California · Nonprofit
HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC
HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,454,250 to it, the largest being ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($525,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $857k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Hold on to Your Music Inc does
Mission
Expand awareness and increase understanding of the history of the holocaust, the ethical implications of world events, the power of the arts, especially music, and the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization partners with different school districts and/or organizations with similar interests and provides books to students, teaches the educators how to "teach the book". Once the children have read the books, created projects, mona golabek, the founder of the organization, visits the city, arranges for the venue, student safety, transportations, etc., and tells the story and performs the music. In the past years, approximately 350,000 students had the learning opportunity about music and history of the holocaust. The program has grown dramatically and passed the two million mark of students impacted including international reach with projects in south africa and england. The organization has also implemented large scale online resources and live streaming performances for school districts across america. The organization entered into a ground breaking partnership with the steven spielberg usc shoah foundation to bring the educational mission to students across the globe.
$349,890 spentof which $45,189 as grants$56,639 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $349,890.
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 $1.8M to $2.4M (+36%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $108k → $403k.
9 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC 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
HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% 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 HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 50% · 2019 78% · 2020 47% · 2021 69% · 2022 52% · 2023 43% — 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
18% of HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $415k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC 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 HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC?
- HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,454,250 to it, the largest being ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($525,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,454,250 in grants to HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC?
- ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOLD ON TO YOUR MUSIC INC 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.
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 28 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