California · Nonprofit
Mid-City Community Music
Mid-City Community Music (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,570 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($263,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $271k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $265k
- Net assets
- $-282636
What Mid-City Community Music does
Mission
Provide music and arts education to underserved and underprivileged youth and adults in San Diego
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mid-City Entrepreneurs: MCCM provided 34 high school students in City Heights the chance to start their own ecommerce businesses through the Mid-City Entrepreneurs program. Students were provided tablets and other free tools to help them start their own businesses selling products that featured their original art and told their personal stories and the stories of their communities.. Venues included: 37ECB Community School (City Heights) and Hoover High (City Heights)Topics included: Arts entrepreneurship, graphic design, business management.
$253,838 spent48% of program spendingThe program served cohorts of 20 youth participants ages 15-24. The program included six cohortsover the grant period, serving a total of 120 students. These seven-week long cohort guidedthrough four primary areas of program activity: design, commerce, finance, and marketing.
$147,012 spent28% of program spendingProgram served 60 students in San Diego's Juvenile Court and Community Schools by guiding them through the process of creating their own digital designs and turning their artworks into t-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise that tell their stories and elevate the voices of their community. This was MCCMs fourth year delivering programming funded by California Art Councils JUMP StArts grant, in cooperation with JCCS, to provide arts workshops to students who are wards of the court, have been refereed by social services.
$97,540 spent18% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Program served 60 students in San Diego's Juvenile Court and Community Schools by guiding them through the process of creating their own digital designs and turning their artworks into t-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise that tell their stories and elevate the voices of their community. This was MCCMs fourth year delivering programming funded by California Art Councils JUMP StArts grant, in cooperation with JCCS, to provide arts workshops to students who are wards of the court, have been refereed by social services. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Mid-City Community Music will provided after-school arts entrepreneur workshops for 120 youth in San Diegos most ethnically diverse neighborhoods and guide them through the process of starting online businesses using their own original artwork that represents their identities, cultures, and communities.
$35,420 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $533,810.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $712k to $363k (−49%).
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: 2019 41% · 2020 42% · 2021 36% · 2022 66% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of Mid-City Community Music’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $104k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Mid-City Community Music’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
Mid-City Community Music leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Mid-City Community Music.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 73% · 2022 99% · 2023 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
100% of Mid-City Community Music'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 $400 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264k 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.
Against its field
Mid-City Community Music has grown faster than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Mid-City Community Music receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 Mid-City Community Music
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Mid-City Community Music?
- Mid-City Community Music (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $264,570 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($263,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mid-City Community Music have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $264,570 in grants to Mid-City Community Music, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mid-City Community Music?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $263,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mid-City Community Music 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 3 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