Skip to content

Connecticut · Nonprofit

Music Academy International Inc

Music Academy International Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being SODOKA INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$985k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$451k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Music Academy International Inc does

Mission

To provide, create, develop, support and coordinate educational, research, and performance programs, services, and initiatives about music with a specific emphasis on the art and business or opera, orchestral, piano, and broadway and their respective traditions. To serve as a teaching and learning site for students of opera, orchestra, piano, and broadway music with a specific emphasis on career development and professional management. To engage in educational, research and performance activities and efforts directed to improving the knowledge and skills of students of opera, orchestral, piano, and broadway music, and enhancing their opportunties for success.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide, create, develop, support and coordinate educational, research, and performance programs, services, and initiatives about music with a specific emphasis on the art and business or opera, orchestral, piano, and broadway and their respective traditions. To serve as a teaching and learning site for students of opera, orchestra, piano, and broadway music with a specific emphasis on career development and professional management. To engage in educational, research and performance activities and efforts directed to improving the knowledge and skills of students of opera, orchestral, piano, and broadway music, and enhancing their opportunties for success.

    $600,701 spent$263,117 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $600,701.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($549k) Expenses 100 ($361k) Net assets 100 ($700k)2022 Revenue 110 ($607k) Expenses 202 ($728k) Net assets 83 ($579k)2023 Revenue 70 ($387k) Expenses 187 ($674k) Net assets 42 ($292k)2024 Revenue 179 ($985k) Expenses 229 ($826k) Net assets 64 ($451k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (179)Expenses (229)Net assets (64)

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 $453k to $609k (+34%).

$700k
$579k
$453k
$609k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 61% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$189k
’21
−$121k
’22
−$287k
’23
$159k
’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

Mitchell Piper

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed2222
Joined····
No longer listed····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Music Academy International 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.

Where its funders are

Music Academy International Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.

DE

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Music Academy International 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 Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Music Academy International 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Music Academy International Inc?
Music Academy International Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being SODOKA INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Music Academy International Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to Music Academy International Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Music Academy International Inc?
SODOKA INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Music Academy International Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

Play a game about who funds Music Academy International →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 1 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