New York · Nonprofit
Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc
Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,639 to it, the largest being NEW MUSIC USA INC ($8,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc does
Mission
Provide professional music entertainment to NYC homeless shelters
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Minor stipends paid to several professional musicians and composersto provide music entertainment to the NYC disenfranchisedhomeless shelter population.
$3,400 spentof which $3,400 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,400.
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 $52k to $14k (−73%).
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.
100% of Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $75 → $9k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Kitchen - Food for the Soul 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 Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214 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 Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc?
- Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,639 to it, the largest being NEW MUSIC USA INC ($8,750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $19,639 in grants to Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc?
- NEW MUSIC USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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