Connecticut · Nonprofit
MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP
MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,850 to it, the largest being PAUL FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $104k
What Maritime Music and Tradition Society Corp does
Mission
The mission of the Maritime Music and Tradition Society Corp is preserving and encouraging maritime and traditional music through education, research, performance and community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Maritime Music & Tradition Society presents an annual Sea Music Festival; through the festival and other concerts, lectures, demonstrations, and song-sharing sessions, we enact our mission of preserving and encouraging maritime music, from deepwater sailing to inland waterways, and building community. The 2nd Connecticut Sea Music Festival was held from June 9-12, 2023 in Essex CT. The Festival featured 5 performance stages throughout the town and 33 performers, with evening concerts at the Essex Town Green. There were over 39 workshops, 3 evening concerts, plus pop-up performances at 3 other locations in town. An outdoor demonstration area provided presentations and workshops on maritime cultural traditions and skills. The Festival included an accessible, barrier-free venue for families and young children, the Family Stage. The demonstrations and Family Stage performances particularly carry out the goals of our nonprofit, all-volunteer organization: To foster and nurture a continuing interest in maritime and traditional music and skills, so that this important aspect of both musical and nautical history remains a vibrant aspect of contemporary cultural life and so that these…
$51,234 spent100% of program spendingSymposium on the Music of the Sea: This one day symposium, free and open to public, featuried papers by international scholars, in person and via Zoom, demonstrating the world-wide reach of sea music. Recordings of the Symposium are archived on YouTube, expanding our audience beyond those able to visit Connecticut.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,234.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $21k to $66k (+220%).
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.
82% of MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP’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
MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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
27% 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 MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- State Aid Grants$9k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$6k
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 MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP?
- MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,850 to it, the largest being PAUL FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,850 in grants to MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP?
- PAUL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARITIME MUSIC AND TRADITION SOCIETY CORP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2022–2024), 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