New Hampshire · Nonprofit
MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL
MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL (New Hampshire) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,591,670 to it, the largest being ANN THEODORE FOUNDATION AMY B NAUGHTON TRUSTEE ($478,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Manchester Community Music School does
Mission
To change lives through the power of learning, sharing and making music. To provide instruction and performance opportunities for the amateur, aspiring and professional musician. To provide music therapy services to individuals with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional programs - private lesson instruction is available year round including a 34-week academic session, a 1-8 week summer session, and fall and spring sessions of 17 weeks each. Additional offerings include group instruction, classes, and camps. Mcms offers instruction on all musical instruments, voice and technology to over 1,500 students each year both in-house and through community partnerships - without regard to age, ability, race, sex or ability to pay. Financial assistance is offered to those unable to pay full tuition.
$430,801 spentof which $144,298 as grants$469,654 earned by the program72% of program spendingMusic therapy - music therapy is an established, evidence-based health profession in which music is used within a therapeutic relationship to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs of individuals. Mcms music therapists provide services to individuals with autism, developmental delays, physical or learning disabilities, mental health needs, traumatic brain injuries, and other special needs. Services are provided to approximately 250 children, teens and adults each week, both in-house and off-site through partnerships with public school districts, hospitals, social service agencies, retirement communities and other non- profit community-based programs. Sessions take place one-to-one, dyads (2 clients), and group settings depending on individual needs.
$119,270 spent$143,541 earned by the program20% of program spendingOutreach programming - outreach programming and community partnerships are an important part of the music school mission. These relationships are meaningful because they provide us the opportunity to bring our music therapy services and music education opportunities directly into underserved communities making them accessible to our most at-risk youth. Mcms outreach programming has grown substantially over the past two years, some of our outreach partners include: the boys & girls club, granite ymca, ywca/center for new americans, mpal, 21st century community learning centers, the moore center, plus company, catholic medical center, southern new hampshire services - head start, 8 new hampshire school districts, new morning school, riverwoods manchester retirement home and other lifelong learning institute.
$18,797 spent$19,827 earned by the program3% of program spendingNh youth ensembles - the new hampshire youth ensemble program is the largest youth ensemble program north of boston. It is comprised of three orchestras, wind ensemble, jazz ensemble and an honors brass ensemble. Ensembles take place during the academic year and are open to students from 8 - 18, more than 100 students participate in these ensembles. Financial assistance is available for those unable to pay full tuition.
$31,427 spent$31,984 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $600,295.
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.
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 $1.6M to $3.0M (+90%).
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 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $90k → $166k.
3 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL’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
MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 48% · 2019 31% · 2020 43% · 2021 56% · 2022 29% · 2023 51% — 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
42% of MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
57% of MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL
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 Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: 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 MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL?
- MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL (New Hampshire) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,591,670 to it, the largest being ANN THEODORE FOUNDATION AMY B NAUGHTON TRUSTEE ($478,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,591,670 in grants to MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL?
- ANN THEODORE FOUNDATION AMY B NAUGHTON TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $478,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANCHESTER COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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