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MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC

MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,513 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($105,013). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$3.6M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$163k
Net assets
$1.3M
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What McDowell Mountain Music Festival Inc does

Mission

Organizing and promoting music festivals, concerts, and similar music appreciation activities among family members, and promoting music's role in the creation and definition of arizona's culture and education.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. To connect the community through a festival gathering including music, arts, and food; to entertain the community, companies and their employees; to educate the underprivileged; to support the arts in an effort that they may grow and exist for future generations to enjoy; and to provide financial support and education to family based charities in an effort to provide equitable advancement for the underprivileged.

    $3,798,579 spentof which $692,000 as grants$1,051,275 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,798,579.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($404k)2018 Revenue 87 ($1.6M) Expenses 112 ($1.6M) Net assets 93 ($374k)2019 Revenue 144 ($2.6M) Expenses 140 ($2.0M) Net assets 242 ($977k)2020 Revenue 129 ($2.3M) Expenses 173 ($2.5M) Net assets 214 ($864k)2021 Revenue 73 ($1.3M) Expenses 33 ($472k) Net assets 422 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 194 ($3.5M) Expenses 251 ($3.6M) Net assets 404 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 198 ($3.6M) Expenses 271 ($3.9M) Net assets 331 ($1.3M)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (198)Expenses (271)Net assets (331)Peer revenue range

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 $905k to $1.9M (+111%).

$509k
$820k
$1.3M
$905k
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.4M
2017201820192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

70% of MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$380k
’17
−$30k
’18
$603k
’19
−$140k
’20
$842k
’21
−$76k
’22
−$292k
’23
4.4
months of
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.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed2244444
Joined···+0+1+0+0
No longer listed···0100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $5k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL 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

MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC.

65%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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

95% of MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states.

UT
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’21
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC has grown faster than half of the 4,778 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · below the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,778 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023

Organizations like MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL 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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,513 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($105,013). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $162,513 in grants to MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,013 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 4 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