New York · Nonprofit
MUSIC FOR HUMANITY
MUSIC FOR HUMANITY (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,732 to it, the largest being GUERRAZZI FOUNDATION INC ($6,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Music for Humanity does
Mission
To give music scholarships and purchase new instruments
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Annually we give music scholarships to music majors at an accredited college or university in the united states
$20,750 spentof which $750 as grants68% of program spendingAnnually we buy new instruments for a local school district
$8,444 spent28% of program spendingAnnually we have a song writing contest
$1,500 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,694.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $22k to $11k (−50%).
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.
85% of MUSIC FOR HUMANITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Barry Adelman Co-Founder
Executive director and boa
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $37 → $7k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 HUMANITY’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 HUMANITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
MUSIC FOR HUMANITY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 HUMANITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MUSIC FOR HUMANITY
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 FOR HUMANITY: 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 HUMANITY?
- MUSIC FOR HUMANITY (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,732 to it, the largest being GUERRAZZI FOUNDATION INC ($6,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSIC FOR HUMANITY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,732 in grants to MUSIC FOR HUMANITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIC FOR HUMANITY?
- GUERRAZZI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIC FOR HUMANITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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