Louisiana · Nonprofit
MAKE MUSIC NOLA
MAKE MUSIC NOLA (Louisiana) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,981 to it, the largest being OSCAR J TOLMAS CHARITABLE TRUST ($110,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $713k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Make Music Nola does
Mission
Make Music Nola is an intensive music-for-social-change program. Themission of Make Music Nola is to promote academic achievement,cultivate artistic expression, and promote the healthy growth anddevelopment of children in new orleans through culturally relevantmusic instruction and performance. Make Music Nola provides focused,tuition-free, in school and after school music training to students whoare eligible for free and reduced lunch at charter schools working with the organization andcommunity centers in nola.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Make Music Nola's string teachers instructed afterschool string classes throughout the week and on saturdays, with saturday sessions including music theory and composition.
$63,490 spent$13,305 earned by the program45% of program spendingMake Music Nola provided in-school group string instruction throughout the school year.
$63,490 spent$13,305 earned by the program45% of program spendingMake Music Nola offered a summer workshop series, culminating in students creating and performing their own compositions
$14,108 spent$2,956 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $141,088.
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 2020 to 2021, from $84k to $150k (+80%).
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: 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 1% · 2022 24% · 2023 24% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of MAKE MUSIC NOLA’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. 4 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
Jee Yeoun Ko
Executive director
Board chair
Fred Neal
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $17k → $100k.
6 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 MAKE MUSIC NOLA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
MAKE MUSIC NOLA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
61% 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 MAKE MUSIC NOLA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 33% · 2019 19% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 38% · 2023 25% — 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
36% of MAKE MUSIC NOLA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
MAKE MUSIC NOLA draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MAKE MUSIC NOLA's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MAKE MUSIC NOLA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
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 MAKE MUSIC NOLA
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKE MUSIC NOLA: 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 NOLA?
- MAKE MUSIC NOLA (Louisiana) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $712,981 to it, the largest being OSCAR J TOLMAS CHARITABLE TRUST ($110,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKE MUSIC NOLA have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $712,981 in grants to MAKE MUSIC NOLA, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKE MUSIC NOLA?
- OSCAR J TOLMAS CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKE MUSIC NOLA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 37 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