Massachusetts · Nonprofit
INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC
INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,465,469 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($456,050). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Inspire Arts and Music Inc does
Mission
Youth activity-providing music education, travel, and performance opportunities for approximately 18,500 teenagers and young adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Drum & bugle corps: the boston crusaders drum & bugle corps is the third-oldest junior drum and bugle corps in the nation and is a founding member of drum corps international. The corps, composed entirely of brass players, percussionists and color guard members under the age of 22, travels over 10,000 miles each summer, performing in more than 40 competitions and exhibitions before a combined audience of over 300,000 fans. The boston crusaders' mission is to provide its members an opportunity to reach their highest potential--as both a person and an artist. The boston crusaders provide a healthy balance between education and competition and seek to constantly challenge members to through a dynamic and unique combination of artistic athletic and life goals.
$3,300,270 spent$2,246,565 earned by the program74% of program spendingMusic festivals: great east music festival and fantastic festivals experience provides a formative evaluation for performances as well as a comprehensive clinic that supports middle schools music programs educational goals and objectives. The festivals are non-competitive elementary, middle and high school music festivals for concert band, wind ensembles, orchestra, concert, select and show choir, jazz band and small ensembles. Our program reaches more than 18,000 students.
$969,550 spent$1,133,253 earned by the program22% of program spendingOther programs: includes hyde inner city percussion lessons - a free program for inner city youth of hyde park, as well as the denney center percussion program at the dorchester boys & girls club and various other programs.
$210,963 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,480,783.
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.
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 $2.3M to $3.6M (+55%).
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 14% · 2021 30% · 2022 34% · 2023 7% · 2024 15% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Chris Holland
CEO and executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $36k → $191k.
9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 INSPIRE ARTS AND 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
INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 69% · 2019 30% · 2020 49% · 2021 38% · 2022 39% · 2023 52% — 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
45% of INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
75% of INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $372k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.
Government funding INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $204k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$204k
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 INSPIRE ARTS AND 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Inspire Arts & Music Investment Club · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSPIRE ARTS AND 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 INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC?
- INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,465,469 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($456,050). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,465,469 in grants to INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $456,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 20 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