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MUSIC FOR FOOD INC

MUSIC FOR FOOD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,553 to it, the largest being THE TESUQUE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$91k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$159k
Net assets
$131k
5/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Music for Food Inc does

Mission

To relieve poverty by raising funds for hunger relief through the public performance of music. The organization also conducts any charitable and educational activities that may raise awareness of hunger in the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To relieve poverty by raising funds for hunger relief through the public performance of music. The organization also conducts any charitable and educational activities that may raise awareness of hunger in the community.

    $48,942 spentof which $5,676 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,942.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($157k) Expenses 100 ($131k) Net assets 100 ($117k)2020 Revenue 104 ($162k) Expenses 113 ($148k) Net assets 112 ($131k)2021 Revenue 44 ($68k) Expenses 67 ($88k) Net assets 95 ($111k)2022 Revenue 68 ($106k) Expenses 60 ($79k) Net assets 119 ($138k)2023 Revenue 126 ($197k) Expenses 148 ($194k) Net assets 121 ($142k)2024 Revenue 60 ($94k) Expenses 77 ($101k) Net assets 116 ($135k)2025 Revenue 58 ($91k) Expenses 72 ($95k) Net assets 112 ($131k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (58)Expenses (72)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $111k to $138k (+24%).

$117k
$131k
$111k
$138k
$142k
$135k
$131k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of MUSIC FOR FOOD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,273 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’19
$15k
’20
−$20k
’21
$27k
’22
$3k
’23
−$7k
’24
−$4k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $7k → $6k.

2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 FOOD 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 FOOD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

26% 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 FOR FOOD INC.

63%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2019 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 49% · 2023 83% — 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

20% of MUSIC FOR FOOD INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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 FOR FOOD INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.

MN
IL
NY
MA

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

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’19
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 FOR FOOD INC's revenue fell 42% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 663 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like MUSIC FOR FOOD INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds MUSIC FOR FOOD INC?
MUSIC FOR FOOD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,553 to it, the largest being THE TESUQUE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MUSIC FOR FOOD INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $158,553 in grants to MUSIC FOR FOOD INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MUSIC FOR FOOD INC?
THE TESUQUE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MUSIC FOR FOOD INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 12 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