Virginia · Nonprofit
Kid Pan Alley
Kid Pan Alley (Virginia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,006,630 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($219,413). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $230k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $137k
What Kid Pan Alley does
Mission
(a) to provide songwriting and music composition instruction to children through residency programs in the schools;(b) to provide songwriting and music composition instruction to adultsthrough workshops;(c) to give public musical performances;(d) to sponsor special events involving public performance of any or all of the above art forms as well as performing arts by the organizationss performing troupe and other performing arts groups;(e) to record, document, publish, and distribute recordings of the songs written as part of our residencies and workshops; and(f) to directly engage in and to assist others to engage in the promotion of the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kid Pan Alley wrote 73 songs with approximately 1,825 children and performed school concerts at each school.
$181,711 spent$48,028 earned by the program100% of program spendingKid Pan Alley Band performed a 25th Anniversary Concert in collaboration with Theatre at Little Washington.
Kid Pan Alley recorded an album of songs to be released November, 2025.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $181,711.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $77k to $143k (+87%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 16% · 2023 3% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Kid Pan Alley’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. 0 of the last 4 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $104k → $164k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Kid Pan Alley’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
Kid Pan Alley has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 Kid Pan Alley.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 36% · 2019 51% · 2020 33% · 2021 37% · 2022 34% · 2023 33% — 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
43% of Kid Pan Alley's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
Kid Pan Alley draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Kid Pan Alley runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Kid Pan Alley
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Kid Pan Alley: 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 Kid Pan Alley?
- Kid Pan Alley (Virginia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,006,630 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($219,413). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kid Pan Alley have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,006,630 in grants to Kid Pan Alley, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kid Pan Alley?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $219,413 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kid Pan Alley find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 25 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