Nevada · Nonprofit
MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION
MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,671 to it, the largest being Gee Foundation ($11,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $-38918
What Making Music Matter Foundation does
Mission
Community Music Education and Performances
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Production and performance of seven (7) Symphonic Winds Concerts Total Audience Reached:769
$52,616 spent54% of program spendingTwelve (12) Symphonic Winds workshops for junior high and high school students who performed four (4) concerts. Total outreach: 886 audience members; 163 students
$3,392 spent3% of program spendingTwo week-long summer band and orchestra camps for beginning, middle school, and high school students. Total outreach: 274 students, 839 audience members.
$40,908 spent42% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,916.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $9k to $19k (+124%).
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.
7% of MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jenelle English
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $33 → $3k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION’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
MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% — 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
MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters 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 MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION?
- MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,671 to it, the largest being Gee Foundation ($11,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,671 in grants to MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION?
- Gee Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKING MUSIC MATTER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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