California · Nonprofit
Muffin Music Inc
Muffin Music Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Muffin Music Inc does
Mission
The mission of Muffin Music is to empower and inspire youth through transformative music education and performance experiences. By providing access to world-class musicians and educators we support young artists from diverse backgrounds in expanding their talents fostering creativity and pursuing artistic innovation through live performance. Our most significant activities includes our M2 Summer Music Program Spring Residency and Muffin Music in Schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The M2 Summer Music Program includes both the M2 Camp and M2 Piano Intensive offering world-class music education for both students in the local Santa Ynez Valley CA and a small cohort talented pianists from around the world. In 2025 the M2 Program was held at the Dunn School in Los Olivos from July 12-20th. Over the course of the week Piano Intensive Students participated in multiple free community outreach concerts performing for over 200 members of the local Santa Ynez Valley community. All students were featured in the final M2 Showcase in front of an additional 100 audience members. In 2025 a total of 32 students participated 25 M2 Camp students and 7 Piano Intensive students.
$16,589 spent$10,545 earned by the program73% of program spendingThe Annual Spring Residency and Muffin Music Bash occurred from April to May 2025 in collaboration with five public school districts in Santa Barbara County. The program provided complimentary performances and workshops. The Residency featured three no-cost community concerts including the inaugural Muffin Music Bash at College School District. Approximately 800 students participated in the Spring Residency.
$5,036 spent22% of program spendingMuffin Music began a collaboration with Hope Refuge from November of 2024-April of 2025. Hope Refuge is an organization managed by the larger organization Olive Crest and supports young girls who are victims of sexual trafficking in Santa Barbara County. We offered three months of workshops with professional musicians for a small group of girls affiliated with the program who gained valuable exposure to playing instruments and understanding basic musical concepts.
$1,000 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,625.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Muffin 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
Muffin Music Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
55% 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 Muffin Music Inc.
“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
55% of Muffin 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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
Muffin Music Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Muffin 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Muffin Music 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 Muffin Music Inc?
- Muffin Music Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Muffin Music Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,000 in grants to Muffin Music Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Muffin Music Inc?
- SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Muffin Music Inc 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), 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