Texas · Nonprofit
INSIDE OUT STEELBAND
INSIDE OUT STEELBAND (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,060 to it, the largest being BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU ($34,060). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Inside Out Steelband does
Mission
Inside Out Steelband is dedicated to the advocacy and advancement of steel drums in Austin and Central Texas communities. The mission of Inside Out is to create community through music by promoting the rich art and tradition of the Trinidadian steel pan in Austin and Central Texas. Inside Out educates, enriches, and entertains Central Texans of all ages by creating and supporting fully inclusive steel band programs, benefiting participants and audiences alike. Inside Out seeks to bring people together from diverse backgrounds so that they may experience the unifying power of music. Inside Out offers free and low cost steel band performances, classes, workshops, and youth summer programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Inside Out Steelband Concert Series- Free, public steel band performances that includes student performers who have been taught by Inside Out Steelband instructors performing with professional steel pan guest artists
$54,000 spentof which $54,000 as grants87% of program spendingInside Out Steelband school and community classes and workshops
$8,271 spentof which $8,271 as grants13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $62,271.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 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.
81% of INSIDE OUT STEELBAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
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
CJ Menge
Executive Director
Board chair
Angela Smith
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $14k → $20k.
From the IRS filings of INSIDE OUT STEELBAND’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.
Where its funders are
100% of INSIDE OUT STEELBAND's grant income comes from Texas 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.
Against its field
INSIDE OUT STEELBAND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like INSIDE OUT STEELBAND
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSIDE OUT STEELBAND: 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 INSIDE OUT STEELBAND?
- INSIDE OUT STEELBAND (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,060 to it, the largest being BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU ($34,060). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSIDE OUT STEELBAND have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $34,060 in grants to INSIDE OUT STEELBAND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSIDE OUT STEELBAND?
- BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU is the largest funder on record, with $34,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSIDE OUT STEELBAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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