New York · Nonprofit
INTERNAL CREATIONS INC
INTERNAL CREATIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,684 to it, the largest being FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION ($40,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Internal Creations Inc does
Mission
To provide free-of-charge classical guitar music programs for middle and high school students in new york city's underfunded and under-resourced schools and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Guitar in the heights education programs: students actively participate in after- school programs consisting of a development of a 15-person classical guitar ensemble program through instructional sessions, in-school and community performances, professional master classes and workshops with guest artists focused on music theory and various types of guitar playing. Serving approximately 100 students in northern manhattan (washington heights and harlem), the bronx, queens, brooklyn and buffalo, n.y.
$40,615 spent98% of program spendingCommunity outreach concert programs are designed to unify our communities and bring people together in harmony for a purpose beyond themselves amidst turbulent times. The goal for these concerts is to be the catalyst that brings you peace, recall beautiful memories, and share peace, love and happiness, showcase student work, and support local artistic talent. Our community concerts served approximately 250 community members, students, and school staff members with our concerts at holyrood church~iglesia santa cruz in washington heights, n.y., traveling outreach performances in washington heights, n.y., the bronx and brooklyn, n.y. And immanuel church in queens, n.y.
$811 spent2% of program spendingVirtual guitar ensemble and rock band: internal creations provided instruments and professional musicalinstruction to 5 high school students recruited from transit tech high school located in east new york, apredominantly african american/latinx community where the median household income is 50k per year. Ourrock band curriculum , which is rooted in learning covers and creating original music is bolstered throughencouragement and empowerment along with the opportunity to learn how to record their music. Internalcreation supports students when personal and musical challenges arise in order to accompany them on thejourney of learning. As our classical guitar programming, our mentorship component to achieve the life skillsremains the core of our programming. This program was provided by a guitar instructor
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,426.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $61k to $29k (−53%).
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.
69% of INTERNAL CREATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jahzeel Montes
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $11k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 INTERNAL CREATIONS 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
INTERNAL CREATIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 INTERNAL CREATIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 54% · 2022 73% · 2023 71% — 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
INTERNAL CREATIONS INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
INTERNAL CREATIONS INC has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNAL CREATIONS 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 New York
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNAL CREATIONS 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 INTERNAL CREATIONS INC?
- INTERNAL CREATIONS INC (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,684 to it, the largest being FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION ($40,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNAL CREATIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $66,684 in grants to INTERNAL CREATIONS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNAL CREATIONS INC?
- FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNAL CREATIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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