Florida · Nonprofit
MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC
MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC (Florida) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,209,803 to it, the largest being PUMPKIN FOUNDATION ($2,999,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Miami Music Project Inc does
Mission
Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. Our vision is to create opportunity and access for those most in need, to develop creativity, innovation, and to improve the quality of life for children today, equipping them with the skills they need to be successful in the future and to help them excel academically, while enhancing their personal development and life skills. Miami music project empowers the following goals: -build a foundation for a prosperous and sustainable society by investing in children; -promote social progress through music by engaging children in ensemble- based music learning; -improve children's social-emotional well-being, behavioral development, academic motivation and achievement; -build pride within the served communities for the benefit of the families and neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Emerging as a model for music education programs nationally, miami music project offers free-of-charge, after-school programming to all students with no barriers to entry, regardless of race or economic status. As of today, miami music project has reached over 33,000 children and youth across miami-dade county and is one of the largest socially transformative music initiatives in the us. Miami music project's programming is inspired by the el sistema phenomenon - a new model for social change and a visionary global movement that transforms the lives of children through music. During the 2024-2025 school year over 75 teaching artists served over 1054 students with our social-emotional learning-based curriculum. In fiscal year 2025, we increased our investment in local talent by 23%. Each children's orchestra student, 4 in 5 of whom qualify for free or reduced lunch, received over 16 hours of music teaching, lessons, and support per week for 576 hours of instruction annually. Students were also provided with snacks and academic help. 100% of our seniors graduated high school and pursued higher education. Miami music project's summer music camp offered orchestra rehearsals,…
$3,066,408 spent$9,694 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,066,408.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.4M to $2.3M (+72%).
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.
96% of MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Ariel Acosta-Rubio
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $795k → $1.6M.
12 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. 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 PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
33% 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 PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 65% · 2019 62% · 2020 34% · 2021 35% · 2022 25% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
52% of MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $442k on record — $436k federal, $6k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$436k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $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 MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT 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 PROJECT INC?
- MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC (Florida) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,209,803 to it, the largest being PUMPKIN FOUNDATION ($2,999,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $11,209,803 in grants to MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC?
- PUMPKIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,999,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT 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 68 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing