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MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION

MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$90k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$44k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Mercury Music Foundation does

Mission

Provide outstanding music programs for students aged 5 to 22 that can create a positive impact on their lives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Smart Music Education Program was awarded by the Community Partners and Los Angeles County Culture Department, and there are 7 directly paid teaching artists benefited from the program, and 89 of youth benefited from our free courses and concerts, 93 attendees who attended to our program and live performance concerts.

    $50,180 spentof which $90,200 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,180.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($10k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2022 Revenue 100 ($10k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2023 Revenue 310 ($31k) Expenses 500 ($10k) Net assets 363 ($29k)2024 Revenue 828 ($83k) Expenses 3625 ($73k) Net assets 129 ($10k)2025 Revenue 902 ($90k) Expenses 2818 ($56k) Net assets 552 ($44k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (902)Expenses (2818)Net assets (552)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 2024 to 2025, from $10k to $44k (+329%).

$8k
$8k
$29k
$10k
$44k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’21
$8k
’22
$21k
’23
$10k
’24
$34k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of MERCURY MUSIC 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.

Where its funders are

100% of MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)73% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like MERCURY MUSIC 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION: 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 MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION?
MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY PARTNERS ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY PARTNERS is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MERCURY MUSIC FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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