Oregon · Nonprofit
MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION
MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $576,076 to it, the largest being LANE COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $540k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $576k
- Net assets
- $453k
What Music Education & Performing Artists Association does
Mission
Mepaa provides access to music education and the arts by removing barriers and identifying resources needed for inclusion, exploration, and success.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The end of 2024 marked our most successful grant cycle to date with new foundations and organizations taking note of the unique and specialized services that mepaa has to offer. Thanks to feedback and support from our students, families, and the community as a whole, our team was able to navigate a challenging first three quarters, and in the fourth quarter, secured funding for our upcoming 2025 fiscal year with a detailed plan on expanding services for youth with behavioral support needs and people experiencing various physical, cognitive, and developmental disabilities. We have the training, experience, and skills to provide higher levels of support for these students and look forward to meeting our goals and serving more families and youth in our community. As an organization, we created more consistent systems, policies and structure that will increase our ability to sustain increased programming in a more efficient manner in the coming year.
$202,162 spent$72,890 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $202,162.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $150k to $453k (+202%).
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.
86% of MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $53k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION’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 EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 35% · 2022 41% · 2023 51% — 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
14% of MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% 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
96% of MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k 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.
Against its field
MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$17k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION: 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 EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION?
- MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $576,076 to it, the largest being LANE COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $576,076 in grants to MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION?
- LANE COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIC EDUCATION & PERFORMING ARTISTS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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