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MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE

MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,602 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($211,850). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$612k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$683k
Net assets
$849k
9/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Music-Arts Institute does

Mission

Music/arts institute, greater kansas city's community school of performing arts, teaches students, young and old alike, to embrace beauty and professionalism in the arts. Shaping tomorrow's performers is the task to which the distinguished faculty addresses itself. Caring for and nurturing the student in every aspect of musicianship, artistry, and life preparation is the goal of music/arts institute.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Arts education for students ranging in age from pre-school to adult. Classes include dance, instrument & vocal ensembles, and private instruction for dance, instruments & voice. Students perform in recitals and various concert events throughout the greater kansas city area. The harp & jazz ensembles are invited to perform at various benefits, galas & festivals (ie. Jackson county historical society gala, truman heartland community foundation gala, bingham-waggoner antique & craft fair, etc.). The young maister singers perform at various venues & concerts, as well (ie. Kc chorale family christmas concert, cable-dahmer arena for a mavericks game, kc speedway, and other joint concerts with the umkc conservatory and the kc boys & girls choirs, etc.)

    $280,173 spentof which $65,394 as grants$188,048 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $280,173.

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 ($414k) Expenses 100 ($350k) Net assets 100 ($200k)2018 Revenue 81 ($334k) Expenses 101 ($353k) Net assets 94 ($188k)2019 Revenue 116 ($479k) Expenses 112 ($391k) Net assets 138 ($275k)2020 Revenue 89 ($368k) Expenses 90 ($314k) Net assets 165 ($329k)2021 Revenue 94 ($388k) Expenses 99 ($348k) Net assets 185 ($369k)2022 Revenue 153 ($633k) Expenses 93 ($325k) Net assets 339 ($677k)2023 Revenue 77 ($320k) Expenses 100 ($350k) Net assets 326 ($650k)2024 Revenue 91 ($375k) Expenses 109 ($383k) Net assets 331 ($661k)2025 Revenue 148 ($612k) Expenses 130 ($454k) Net assets 425 ($849k)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (130)Net assets (425)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 2021 to 2022, from $378k to $687k (+82%).

$210k
$190k
$307k
$348k
$378k
$687k
$656k
$676k
$892k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

67% of MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$63k
’17
−$19k
’18
$88k
’19
$54k
’20
$40k
’21
$308k
’22
−$30k
’23
−$8k
’24
$157k
’25
3.9
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.

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Listed161818161513161718
Joined·+3+3+1+0+0+4+2+4
No longer listed·13312113
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $42k → $116k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE’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

MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

32% 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 MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE.

31%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 67% · 2019 58% · 2020 63% · 2021 44% · 2022 54% · 2023 52% — 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.

How long its funders stay

89% of MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 90% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.

MO
KS

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

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 38%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
94%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE?
MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $682,602 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($211,850). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $682,602 in grants to MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE?
THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $211,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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