Alabama · Nonprofit
MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION
MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,543 to it, the largest being THE JOEL R ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $126k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $-33676
What Muscle Shoals Songwriters Foundation does
Mission
To create a one-of-a-kind experience for both songwriters and music lovers and, connect them together from all across the globe
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The foundations purpose is to provide support for songwriters, musicians, and other organizations that share a similar passion. The foundation plans to hold an annual festival to bring songwriters, musicians, and organizations together. Our goal is to endorse education and exposure, participate in community outreach, including potentially providing support to other organizations, and promote the arts
$144,915 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $144,915.
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 $7k to $25k (+276%).
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.
59% of MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION’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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION’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
MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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
60% of MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION?
- MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,543 to it, the largest being THE JOEL R ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $45,543 in grants to MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION?
- THE JOEL R ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSCLE SHOALS SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2021–2025), 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