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MuseIque

MuseIque (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,553,206 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,606,134). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.7M
Funders on record
66
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$1.3M
42/66 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What MuseIque does

Mission

Muse/Ique pioneers new musical experiences for people by creating curated live music events and outreach programs, all aimed at inspiring the creative spirit, engaging the community imagination, and fostering new generations of music lovers.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

Muse/Ique Student Matinees - We provide free live productions of Muse/Ique's performances for middle school and highschool students.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. Muse/Ique works with a wide range of community partners and artists to present finely curated, highly engaging, deeply inspiring live music events that take place in touchstone locales throughout our region and reach a diverse segment of the community.

    $3,337,107 spent$592,097 earned by the program
    92% of program spending
  2. Muse/Ique Offstage is our free interactive musical workshop program serving foster and underserved youth 12-18, people with special needs, families facing homelessness and low-income seniors. These curricular, interactive encounters bring live music and instruction to these clients in residential foster care facilities, after-school programs, community centers, homeless outreach facilities and special needs facilities.

    $292,567 spent
    8% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,629,674.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 78 ($1.9M) Expenses 144 ($2.4M) Net assets 62 ($891k)2019 Revenue 152 ($3.6M) Expenses 167 ($2.8M) Net assets 116 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 103 ($2.4M) Expenses 95 ($1.6M) Net assets 176 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 91 ($2.2M) Expenses 172 ($2.9M) Net assets 126 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 198 ($4.7M) Expenses 231 ($3.9M) Net assets 182 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 190 ($4.5M) Expenses 267 ($4.5M) Net assets 185 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 158 ($3.7M) Expenses 305 ($5.1M) Net assets 90 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (305)Net assets (90)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.5M to $3.0M (−32%).

$1.6M
$1.2M
$2.3M
$3.0M
$2.4M
$3.3M
$4.5M
$3.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 12% · 2021 9% · 2022 1% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of MuseIque’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$691k
’17
−$556k
’18
$799k
’19
$861k
’20
−$713k
’21
$813k
’22
$21k
’23
−$1.4M
’24
1.2
months of
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

Brian S Colburn

President / CEO

Board chair

Leeann Havner

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2524262626252527
Joined·+3+2+4+4+1+3+5
No longer listed·4044233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $644k → $2.0M.

12 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 MuseIque’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 funders by total. 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

MuseIque has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

43% 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 MuseIque.

27%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 26% · 2019 22% · 2020 28% · 2021 42% · 2022 21% · 2023 35% — 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.

How long its funders stay

48% of MuseIque's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

67% of MuseIque's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
PA
CA
UT
MO
DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MuseIque's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−37% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like MuseIque

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 13%Fundraising 16%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MuseIque: 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 MuseIque?
MuseIque (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,553,206 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,606,134). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MuseIque have?
IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $13,553,206 in grants to MuseIque, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MuseIque?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,606,134 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MuseIque 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 66 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