Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc
Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being RCB Charitable Foundation Inc ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $55k
What Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc does
Mission
Instruction in the Performing Arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Offering music lesson and ensemblesto students of all means
$66,686 spentof which $12,292 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,686.
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.
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 $43k to $66k (+56%).
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.
21% of Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Valerie Walton
Exec Dir
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Merrimack Valley Community Music School 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
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
Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $104k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$104k
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 Merrimack Valley Community Music School 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Merrimack Valley Community Music School 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 Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc?
- Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being RCB Charitable Foundation Inc ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc?
- RCB Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Merrimack Valley Community Music School 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 2017–2025), 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