Minnesota · Nonprofit
MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC
MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC (Minnesota) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,977,658 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($4,210,000). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 108
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Macphail Center for Music does
Mission
Macphail Center for Music provides access to diverse and relevant music learning experiences, delivered by extraordinary faculty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Macphail Center for Music transforms lives and strengthens communities through the power of music. As the nation's largest community music school, macphail annually serves more than 15,000 students of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities through diverse music learning experiences. Our extraordinary faculty offer individual lessons and group classes on more than 35 instruments, as well as in voice, composition, electronic music, and the recording arts. Instruction is offered at four locationsapple valley, minn.; austin, minn.; chanhassen, minn.; minneapolis, minn.; and madeline island, wis.as well as online and through dozens of community and school partnerships.community partnerships in the 2024-2025 academic year, macphail's community partnerships program provided services to 9,155 students across 136 locations. This represents more than half of all macphail students.on-site music instruction in fy25, macphail provided music education to 5,285 students through its on-site locations in minneapolis, apple valley, austin (minn.), chanhassen, and madeline island (wis.).performances and events each year, macphail presents nearly 300 live concerts and 74 workshops, reaching more than…
$12,656,220 spentof which $1,080,001 as grants$8,587,367 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,656,220.
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 2022 to 2023, from $34M to $42M (+24%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 15% · 2022 16% · 2023 5% · 2024 6% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Kyle Carpenter
CEO - through sept 2024
Board chair
Hudie Broughton
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $478k → $6.6M.
19 of 108 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $500k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest The Wurtele Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC raised.
From the IRS filings of MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 108 funders by total. 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
MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
26% 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 MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 52% · 2019 34% · 2020 38% · 2021 36% · 2022 23% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
91% of MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC's funding base is broadening — from 30 funders to 57 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: 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 MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC?
- MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC (Minnesota) receives grants from 108 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,977,658 to it, the largest being WEM FOUNDATION ($4,210,000). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 108 organizations giving $18,977,658 in grants to MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC?
- WEM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 108 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