California · Nonprofit
MUSIC CHANGING LIVES
MUSIC CHANGING LIVES (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,485 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $380k
- Net assets
- $0
What Music Changing Lives does
Mission
At Music Changing Lives, our mission is to oofer the highest quality music and art enrichment programs paired with academic support to underpriviled and at-risk youth ages 5 and older. We work to improve their chances of achieving a positive and successful future and trnsform them into active and knowledge civic participants
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our Changing Lives Showcase has been altered from only being offered in one school district to us now hosting outdoor concerts and developing a virtual model that has given us a global reach as well due to the pandemic, which has benefited not only us but also the young adults we can serve. Thanks to our gracious donors we've grown from only hosting one show a year to now hosting a pop show every 3rd Saturday of the month and had some of the world most renowned artists performing for us now.
$275,882 spent33% of program spendingThrough our Random Act of Kindness Toy drive were blessed to bring the holiday spirit and joy of Christmas to thousands of children in need with the help of several sponsors this year our team collected over 100,000 toys and we reached over 25 cities across Southern and Northern California and even had representatives distribute toys in Las Vegas, Seattle Washington, Mexico and Haiti.
$275,882 spent33% of program spendingMusic Changing Lives Hunger Relief Program IE is a food distribution program that strengthens the nutrition safety net through the distribution of fresh organic produce every Wednesday and other nutrition assistance to children, low-income families, emergency feeding programs, and the elderly. This year wei?ve distributed
$275,881 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $827,645.
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.
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 $2.7M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MUSIC CHANGING LIVES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $70k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 CHANGING LIVES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 13 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
MUSIC CHANGING LIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 61% · 2020 59% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — 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
25% of MUSIC CHANGING LIVES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
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
91% of MUSIC CHANGING LIVES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
MUSIC CHANGING LIVES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MUSIC CHANGING LIVES
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CHANGING LIVES: 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 MUSIC CHANGING LIVES?
- MUSIC CHANGING LIVES (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,485 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($250,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSIC CHANGING LIVES have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $380,485 in grants to MUSIC CHANGING LIVES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIC CHANGING LIVES?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIC CHANGING LIVES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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