Florida · Nonprofit
INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC
INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,753 to it, the largest being LESLIE PETER FOUNDATION ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $455k
- Net assets
- $129k
What Instruments of Change Inc does
Mission
Music education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To profoundly impact the lives of disadvantaged children through the gifts of musical instrument donation, instruction and performance.our primary outreach is a 5th grade band program in title 1 schools. The aspect that makes us different is that, while learning to play, we provide an opportunity for each student to earn an instrument for middle school band. We have developed an efficient operational model to bring instruments and instruction to their school. We have also developed the instruments of change curriculum to allow for greater long-term success for the students. Through our programs we have seen students from title 1 schools go on to academic success in middle and high school and now into college on full ride scholarships because of their music.our 2024 ioc band programs were held at the student's school eliminating the need to travel to the program. The required classes meet after school twice each week, for one hour each day, from september to may in conjunction with the school year.in 2024, we were able to purchase instruments and to launch programs at two new schools because of substantial grants received, one unsolicited and one project specific .
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $131k to $77k (−41%).
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.
100% of INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Glen Schubert
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $27k → $20k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE 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
INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 78% · 2019 66% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 73% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC?
- INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $454,753 to it, the largest being LESLIE PETER FOUNDATION ($200,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $454,753 in grants to INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC?
- LESLIE PETER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 12 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