Maryland · Nonprofit
ICARUS QUARTET INC
ICARUS QUARTET INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,800 to it, the largest being MID ATLANTIC ARTS INC ($24,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Icarus Quartet Inc does
Mission
icarus Quartet, Inc.s purpose is to promote culture and musical education. By creating immersive experiences that fuse the power of an orchestra with the intimacy of chamber music, icarus Quartet, Inc. welcomes the music of our time into the concert hall and delivers the best of classical music out to youth and the world of today.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Concert touring, which is an integral part of the organization's mission, continues to be both a significant source of income and expense. In this season, icarus Quartet toured their new program, Bartok Reborn, extensively to venues such as Penn State University, Columbus State University, and others. icarus Quartet also collaborated with the Peabody Conservatory on a mixed ensemble project that responded to the poetry of an incarcerated person, entitled Songs from Inside.
$32,011 spentof which $14,963 as grants36% of program spendingiQ Tests is icarus Quartet's capstone educational program, focusing on a season-long collaboration with two scholar composers, culminating in the premiering and recording of two newly written works for the quartet. This program has become a staple call to scores program for young and emerging composers, giving them valuable collaborative experience, premiere concersts, and professionally produced recordings.
$6,914 spent8% of program spendingWilderness Suite is a new evening length program involving music by composer Ruby Fulton, videos from eight video artists, all in response to geologic survey work by geologist Teresa Cavazos-Cohn about the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. The new work has been in production over the last few years, and will be premiered in February 2026, and will be subsequently toured by icarus Quartet in the coming season.
$87,786 spentof which $60,280 as grants100% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,786. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jeff Stern
Executive Director and Percussionist
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $21k.
From the IRS filings of ICARUS QUARTET 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
ICARUS QUARTET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 ICARUS QUARTET INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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
66% of ICARUS QUARTET INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding ICARUS QUARTET INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 ICARUS QUARTET 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ICARUS QUARTET 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 ICARUS QUARTET INC?
- ICARUS QUARTET INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,800 to it, the largest being MID ATLANTIC ARTS INC ($24,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ICARUS QUARTET INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $52,800 in grants to ICARUS QUARTET INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ICARUS QUARTET INC?
- MID ATLANTIC ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $24,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ICARUS QUARTET INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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