Colorado · Nonprofit
MORE THAN MUSIC INC
MORE THAN MUSIC INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,383 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $451k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $-28303
What More Than Music Inc does
Mission
The mission of More Than Music Inc. is to challenge audiences to listen for and live out their callings to serve others - using music presented in ensemble community as model and catalyst.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
School Assembly Programs. At the Table with Dr. King is a multi-media assembly program and concert production which uses live music video and visual images from the Civil Rights Movement Era to challenge students to discover and live out their callings in their communities. The performances dramatize the kitchen table moment in Dr. Kings life using it as model and catalyst for what can happen when one person hears the call to serve his or her community overcomes obstacles and lives it out. The video version of the program captured the day before lockdown began in 2020 continues to impacted thousands of viewers lives across the world through partnerships with the Mizel Museum the US State Department Stanford Universitys Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Research and Education Institute the NAACP and schools and community organizations across the US. Its companion program available for schools to present in alternating years is called The Music of Movements and focuses on helping its attendees find their constructive voice examining historical examples to extrapolate how they can make their voices matter. In FY 25-26 MTM served 51,208 attendees through live film and online programs.
$322,369 spent$290,042 earned by the program74% of program spendingBlue Gospel Scripts is a multi-media performance which builds on the proven success of the At the Table with Dr. King format - a mix of music video visual images and spoken word - and focuses its impact toward lessening society-wide Biblical illiteracy by presenting the Bible in multi-media script format with very little commentary. While the videos created during Covid are still accessible and accessed on YouTube during FY 25-26 MTM also presented 6 live shows directly impacting 585 people.
$108,338 spent$1,700 earned by the program25% of program spendingMTM presented 7 live community events during FY 25-26 which served 4,850 grateful people. Live music is a powerful tool to restore hope and joy to those lacking and build lasting community ties and More Than Music ensures that this service is available to the largest possible number of people by: 1. For self-produced events always charging reduced-rate prices and when tickets are sold offering complimentary tickets to those unable to afford them 2. For events produced by others always requesting reduced-rate honorariums to cover musician & organization costs 3. Working when possible with contract musicians who receive highly reduced fees for their services and often volunteer their time to ensure the largest possible number of people will have access to the powerful impact of live music.
$7,246 spent$5,500 earned by the program2% of program spendingMore Than Music creates recordings of its music in order to lengthen and strengthen its impact on those it serves both through distribution of physical recordings and streaming services. In the 25-26 FY the organization sold few recordings but was able to impact many thousands through streaming services.
$0 spent$22 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $437,953.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $13k to $75k (+473%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 28% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0% · 2026 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of MORE THAN MUSIC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
David LeMieux
Executive Director
Board chair
Jeremiah Ermias
Chair of Board of Directors
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $19.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 MORE THAN MUSIC 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
MORE THAN MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 MORE THAN MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 51% · 2022 100% · 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
80% of MORE THAN MUSIC INC'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 $16k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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
MORE THAN MUSIC INC has grown faster than half of the 335 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding MORE THAN MUSIC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- Department of State$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 MORE THAN MUSIC 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MORE THAN MUSIC INC?
- MORE THAN MUSIC INC (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,383 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MORE THAN MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $82,383 in grants to MORE THAN MUSIC INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MORE THAN MUSIC INC?
- THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MORE THAN MUSIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), 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