Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC
MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,753 to it, the largest being RUSSELL C AND CORNELIE G HIBBELER FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $401k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $370k
- Net assets
- $297k
What Making Music Matters Inc does
Mission
The corporations primary purpose is to provide for equity of access to qualityarts education, specifically on instrumental music, by students in the boston andother public schools through inclusive enrollment which reflects the diversestudent populations and various educational settings in each school in order toenhance each students school experience and to encourage a life-long love ofmusic in all of such students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Instrumental Music Program within Boston Public Schools serving 400 students during the school day.
$1,564 spentof which $15,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,564.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $117k to $297k (+154%).
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: 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $15k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 MATTERS 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
MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
60% of MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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 MATTERS INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 MATTERS 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAKING MUSIC MATTERS 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 MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC?
- MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,753 to it, the largest being RUSSELL C AND CORNELIE G HIBBELER FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $369,753 in grants to MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC?
- RUSSELL C AND CORNELIE G HIBBELER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 11 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