Florida · Nonprofit
MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,274 to it, the largest being THE JOHN J POHANKA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Miami Music Festival Inc does
Mission
The mission of the miami music festival is to provide affordable, world class musical instructions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of teh miami music festival is to provide afforbale, world-class musical instructions and ground-breaking performance experiences to young artists and teh south florida region.
$1,230,568 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,230,568.
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 2023 to 2024, from $157k to $1.6M (+907%).
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 3% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 12% · 2021 47% · 2022 43% · 2023 51% · 2024 21% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Michael A Rossi
Executive director
Board chair
Sevag Balian
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $11k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 MIAMI 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
MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2019 87% · 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MIAMI 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL 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 MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
- MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $219,274 to it, the largest being THE JOHN J POHANKA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $219,274 in grants to MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
- THE JOHN J POHANKA FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIAMI MUSIC FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 6 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