Oregon · Nonprofit
MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,413 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($108,862). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $154k
- Net assets
- $208k
What Music Is Instrumental does
Mission
Provide Music Instruments Instrument repair Music Technicians Promote Programs for Lincoln County District Elementary middle and high schools
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided Instrument repair for Lincoln City K-12 schools music programs for Lincoln County Schools. In 2024 we reached nearly 1200 students with Music and Music Education. Music programs have either been cut or severely diminished from our schools programs MII continues to ensure that all students whom want to be in music programs have that opportunity. Additionally music class is mandatory for all 6th grade students.
$2,242 spent4% of program spendingProvided Music Teachers retired music professionals support music instruction for 230 Band and Choir students in grades 6-12 to build music technique and fluency.
$15,976 spent29% of program spendingPurchase new instruments replacing near vintage to ensure that students have a level field to discover aptitude and excel.
$37,429 spent67% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,647.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $112k to $164k (+46%).
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.
90% of MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $31k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 IS INSTRUMENTAL’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 IS INSTRUMENTAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 IS INSTRUMENTAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — 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
91% of MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k 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.
Against its field
MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$10k
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 IS INSTRUMENTAL
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL: 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 IS INSTRUMENTAL?
- MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,413 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($108,862). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $154,413 in grants to MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $108,862 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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