New York · Nonprofit
LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC
LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $748,900 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA B TOULMIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION III ($305,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $486k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $749k
- Net assets
- $193k
What Luna Composition Lab Inc does
Mission
The organization is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes specifically in eliminating prejudice discrimination in the artistic and musical composition realm by providing under represented artists with the guidance, visibility and resources to promote their works with the aim of achieving equal representation in the artistic world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The fellowship is a year-long mentorship program and festival for young female, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming composer ages 13-18.
$126,386 spent$2,400 earned by the program41% of program spendingAdventures in sound is a series of online group composition courses for young female, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming musicians ages 13-18.
$60,629 spent$3,600 earned by the program20% of program spendingAlumni of the fellowship program have gone on to receive national awards, attend the nations top colleges and conservatories, and receive commissions from renowned chamber ensembles and orchestras. 75% of the programs alumni in college are studying composition, and 100% are involved in music.
$119,253 spent$371 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $306,268.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $95k to $210k (+120%).
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: 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of LUNA COMPOSITION LAB 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. 0 of the last 2 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
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $259k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 LUNA COMPOSITION LAB 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
LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 64% — 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
LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $209k 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
LUNA COMPOSITION LAB 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
Government funding LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 LUNA COMPOSITION LAB 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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 LUNA COMPOSITION LAB 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 LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC?
- LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $748,900 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA B TOULMIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION III ($305,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $748,900 in grants to LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC?
- VIRGINIA B TOULMIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION III is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUNA COMPOSITION LAB 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 15 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