New York · Nonprofit
Make Music Alliance Inc
Make Music Alliance Inc (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,575 to it, the largest being MORTIMER AND MIMI LEVITT FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $328k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $95k
What Make Music Alliance Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to help bring music into peoples lives by encouraging free musical performances in public spaces.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To encourage free musical performances in public spaces, the organization holds an annual international event called Make Music Day that takes place every year on June 21st, the summer solstice. In 2024, over 140 cities organized over 5,300 free concerts under the leadership of Make Music Alliance.
$300,707 spentof which $79,540 as grants$66,607 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $300,707.
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 $106k to $381k (+260%).
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 5% · 2022 10% · 2023 7% · 2024 11% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Make Music Alliance Inc’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. 3 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
Aaron Friedman
Executive Director
Board chair
Andrea Berman
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Make Music Alliance 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
Make Music Alliance Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
“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
Make Music Alliance Inc draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Make Music Alliance Inc has grown faster 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 Make Music Alliance 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 Make Music Alliance 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 Make Music Alliance Inc?
- Make Music Alliance Inc (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,575 to it, the largest being MORTIMER AND MIMI LEVITT FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Make Music Alliance Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,575 in grants to Make Music Alliance Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Make Music Alliance Inc?
- MORTIMER AND MIMI LEVITT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Make Music Alliance 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.
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 3 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