Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,784 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($27,962). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $288k
What Minnesota Music Educators Association does
Mission
To develop, promote & support equitable & comprehensive music learning & teaching in Minnesota.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Students Making Music: MMEA directly serves students from around Minnesota. MMEA engages the students in learning music knowledge including historical & cultural content, technical facility, communication skills in responding to performance of peer students or themselves & social skills or expectations in a group setting. This is inclusive of All-State Music Ensembles, Elementary All-Star Choir & The Plug.
$640,388 spent$691,760 earned by the program67% of program spendingProfessional Development for Educators: MMEA provides professional development through online articles & continuing education training in education methods, music specific pedagogy, assessment, technology & inclusivity to reach all learners. They serve more than half of Minnesotas K-12 music educators through these services. This is inclusive of an annual professional development convention each February & a professional publication called The Interval.
$312,717 spent$271,600 earned by the program33% of program spendingAdvocacy: MMEA provides research-based facts to school board members, parents of music students & the community to ensure the continued presence of music education for all students in K-12 schools. MMEA responded to requests from the community, including media, for information about the status of music education in Minnesotas schools.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $953,105.
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 2020 to 2021, from $153k to $378k (+147%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $200 → $6k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION’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
MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
88% of MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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
MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION: 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 MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION?
- MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,784 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($27,962). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $43,784 in grants to MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing