New York · Nonprofit
LYRA MUSIC INC
LYRA MUSIC INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,208 to it, the largest being SELIGMAN FOUNDATION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Lyra Music Inc does
Mission
The mission of lyra music is to enrich the lives of youth and build community through classical music. Founded in 2010 with a vision of enhancing the lives of young musicians and enriching communities through classical music training and performance, lyra music supports the musical, emotional and personal development of every participant through a nurturing, non-competitive environment where each student is encouraged to reach their full potential. Lyra music produces an annual summer workshop and music festival as well as a youth music competition for string players and pianists.lyra students are young musicians, ages 11-18, immersed in a supportive, nurturing community where they live, work, and play with their peers and the dedicated lyra faculty and staff.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Lyra music young artist performance program is a 2-week, conservatory-style, residential classical music program held at the storm king school in cornwall-on-hudson, ny in june/july. Lyra participants are immersed in a supportive, nurturing community where they live, work and playwith their peers and the didicated lyra faculty and staff. The program is geared toward the intensive study and performance of solo and chamber repertoire and includes performance in multiple outreach concert engaging with the community as well as opportunities to observe or participatelyra music provides financial aids and scholarships in the form of reductions in registration fees, tuition, room and board to students who need financial assistance to attend the program
$97,830 spent87% of program spendingThe lyra music youth competition on hiatus in 2025
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe lyra music festival is an outstanding series of summer classical music events based in hudson valley, ny (formally based in northampton ma). Each summer lyra music brings together world class musicians, outstanding young string players and pianists and an exceptional faculty of professional musicians and educators for concerts, master classes and outreach performances.lyra music festival guest artists have included musicians such as simone dinnersteain, frederic chiu, matthew zalkind, itamar zorman, sibbi bernhardsson, michael brown, dane johansen, spencer myer, alexi kenney, melissa white, and the horszoski triothe masterclasses aspect of our music festival provides lyra festival audiences to go behind-the-scenes,attend master classes where they will hear lyra music young artist performance program students perform and watch as these students receive one-on-one coaching with lyra music guest artists.
$14,248 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $112,078.
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 2021 to 2022, from $97k to $58k (−40%).
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.
34% of LYRA MUSIC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $44.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 LYRA MUSIC 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
LYRA MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 LYRA MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of LYRA MUSIC INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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
LYRA MUSIC INC's revenue grew 27% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 LYRA MUSIC INC?
- LYRA MUSIC INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,208 to it, the largest being SELIGMAN FOUNDATION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYRA MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $58,208 in grants to LYRA MUSIC INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYRA MUSIC INC?
- SELIGMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYRA MUSIC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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