Indiana · Nonprofit
Music For All Inc
Music For All Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,840,360 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($877,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Music For All Inc does
Mission
The mission of Music For All is to create, provide and expand positively life-changing experiences through music. Music For All's vision is continued on Schedule O.The vision of Music for All is to be a catalyst to ensure that every child across America has access and opportunity to participate in active music making in his or her scholastic environment. We use our resources to provide national programs that recognize and support music students' performance and success, offer music educator training and professional development, and deliver tools and resources to participants and their communities that will assist them in supporting music education by promoting awareness of music's impact on student growth and achievement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
FALL BANDS OF AMERICA (BOA) MARCHING BAND SEASON: Music for All's marching band championships are the premier events for marching band in the nation. BOA's marching band shows offer positively life-changing experiences for the students, teachers, and parents of bands who participate, as well as fans and spectators.GRAND NATIONALS: Music for All's Bands of America Grand National Championships is America's premiere national marching band event. First and foremost, Grand Nationals is an educational performance opportunity. Grand Nationals is also a spectacular music and pageantry event, one that band fans from across the nation and around the world travel to for exciting and creative performances.
$6,808,326 spent$7,735,705 earned by the program60% of program spendingNATIONAL FESTIVAL: The Music for All National Festival's non-competitive atmosphere provides a place for growth, cooperative encouragement, and mutual respect among music programs, students, administrators, and community. The event features nationally recognized clinicians that are of the highest caliber in the music education world. High school and middle school ensembles, concert bands, orchestras, percussion ensembles, and chamber ensembles from around the country submit applications to be selected to participate in the National Festival. Individual high school students also apply to participate in the Honor Band of America, Honor Orchestra of America, and Jazz Band of America.
$2,973,225 spent$2,368,243 earned by the program26% of program spendingBANDS OF AMERICA SUMMER CAMP: only at the Bands of America Summer Camp will you travel for exciting and creative performances. Experience the most-intensive, non-stop, make-you-better approach to musicianship, performance excellence, and student leadership development. It's the leading summer camp for middle and high school band students and band directors, brought to you by Music for All.
$1,403,363 spent$1,224,900 earned by the program12% of program spendingMusic for All Newsletter a series of digital e-news letters and printed newsletters that are emailed to approximately 110,000 subscribers per monthly issue and mailed to approximately 8,000 high school band directors one time annually with information about all of Music for All's educational programs and events.Advocacy Programs: A series of programs providing educational and advocacy resources, including a series of Affiliated Regional Music Festivals. Other Advocacy programs include: Professional development programs, Advocacy in Action awards program providing recognition to support music in our schools, working to ensure music education is available to every child, with emphasis on increasing access to music education for students and teachers from underappreciated communities, including small, rural, and urban schools. Music for All offers these programs independently and also collaborates with a number of other programs to extend the reach of its advocacy programming.
$143,220 spent$224,660 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,328,134.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.7M to $9.8M (+265%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 25% · 2022 39% · 2023 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of Music For All Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Jeremy L Ernhart
President & CEO(left in Dec 2024)
Board chair
Doug Pileri
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $171k → $568k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 For All 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Music For All Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 35% · 2019 27% · 2020 70% · 2021 30% · 2022 19% · 2023 74% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of Music For All Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
89% of Music For All Inc's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $173k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 For All Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Music For All Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44k on record.
- Department of Defense$44k
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 For All 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Music For All Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Music For All 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Music For All Inc?
- Music For All Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,840,360 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($877,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Music For All Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,840,360 in grants to Music For All Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Music For All Inc?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $877,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Music For All Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 21 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