New Jersey · Nonprofit
MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC
MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,025 to it, the largest being INVESTORS FOUNDATION INC ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Montclair Early Music does
Mission
We provide opportunities for adults and children of all ages races and abilities to learn and play music together in small groups.We enrich our community with rarely performed music of 13th-17th centuries thereby preserving it for future generations.Our family-friendly performances tell stories of knights and castles integrating music and art.We provide free music lessons to under-served children with the goal of increasing the number of classical musicians of color with our annual Recorder challenge.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Montclair Early Music MEM provides opportunities for adults & children to develop their musical ensemble and performance playing skills. MEM provides free and low cost beginner classes for adults and children to learn to play the recorder a musical instrument dating back over 2,000 years with a rich repertoire of music. Our advanced ensemble performs historical musical events engaging the audience with period music dance and art. Programs attract a diverse audiences of 100 to 200 people.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
42% of MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
julienne Pape
Executive Director
Board chair
Donald Scheir
Board President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $2k → $525.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 MONTCLAIR EARLY 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
MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25 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
MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like MONTCLAIR EARLY 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC: 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 MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC?
- MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,025 to it, the largest being INVESTORS FOUNDATION INC ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,025 in grants to MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC?
- INVESTORS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTCLAIR EARLY MUSIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 2 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