California · Nonprofit
MUSIC MAKING A DIFFERENCE
MUSIC MAKING A DIFFERENCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $42k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Music Making a Difference does
Mission
To support the indigenous people of mexico with health, education, food distribution, and sustainability programs.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Embarked on the production of a documentary film highlighting the rarmuri culture. This film will serve to tell the story of the rarmuri, gain exposure and drive donations to support the programs the nonprofit supports in the areas of healthcare, famine relief, education and sustainability.
$15,733 spent54% of program spendingProvided grants to the rarmuri community for doctor visit fees for health care, procured and shipped food and staples for famine relief, bunk beds and school supplies for education. The nonprofit serves 250+ indigenous rarmuri families in a particular region equaling about 2,500 individuals.
$11,788 spent41% of program spendingRomayne wheeler piano concert to provide exposure to the mission and secure donations
$1,400 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,921.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Curtis Cetraro
Chair and director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MUSIC MAKING A DIFFERENCE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,102 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,102 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like MUSIC MAKING A DIFFERENCE
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 California
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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE: 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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE?
- MUSIC MAKING A DIFFERENCE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSIC MAKING A DIFFERENCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to MUSIC MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIC MAKING A DIFFERENCE?
- Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIC MAKING A DIFFERENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 1 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