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KITHARA PROJECT INC

KITHARA PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,243 to it, the largest being CHARLESVIEW INC ($92,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$351k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$268k
Net assets
$230k
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Kithara Project Inc does

Mission

Kithara project is a collective of internationally acclaimed classical guitarists with the mission of bringing the guitar to global communities with limited access to live music and music education. The guitar is unique in its ability to appeal to people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds. Through performances, workshops, and partnerships, kithara project inspires self-discovery by means of musical expression and promotes vibrant and sustainable artistic communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Kithara project operates tuition-free classical guitar programs for at-risk youth in the us and mexico. Its five principal programs are located in allston, ma; albuquerque, nm; detriot, mi, providence,ri and mexico city.

    $138,017 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $138,017.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($33k)2019 Revenue 98 ($91k) Expenses 102 ($94k) Net assets 92 ($31k)2020 Revenue 101 ($94k) Expenses 88 ($81k) Net assets 132 ($44k)2021 Revenue 114 ($106k) Expenses 97 ($90k) Net assets 182 ($61k)2022 Revenue 135 ($126k) Expenses 175 ($161k) Net assets 76 ($25k)2023 Revenue 201 ($187k) Expenses 152 ($140k) Net assets 218 ($72k)2024 Revenue 203 ($189k) Expenses 200 ($184k) Net assets 233 ($77k)2025 Revenue 376 ($351k) Expenses 216 ($199k) Net assets 693 ($230k)
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Revenue (376)Expenses (216)Net assets (693)Peer revenue range

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 $79k to $232k (+192%).

$36k
$34k
$55k
$67k
$32k
$74k
$79k
$232k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of KITHARA PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’18
−$3k
’19
$13k
’20
$17k
’21
−$35k
’22
$47k
’23
$5k
’24
$152k
’25
8.2
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $29k → $57k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 KITHARA PROJECT 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

KITHARA PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 KITHARA PROJECT INC.

34%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 66% · 2021 54% · 2022 54% · 2023 61% — 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

50% of KITHARA PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

74% of KITHARA PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

IL
NY
MA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KITHARA PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding KITHARA PROJECT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record.

State$11k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$11k

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 KITHARA PROJECT 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 15%Fundraising 15%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

57%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds KITHARA PROJECT INC?
KITHARA PROJECT INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $268,243 to it, the largest being CHARLESVIEW INC ($92,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KITHARA PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $268,243 in grants to KITHARA PROJECT INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KITHARA PROJECT INC?
CHARLESVIEW INC is the largest funder on record, with $92,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KITHARA PROJECT 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 2018–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing