California · Nonprofit
MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC
MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,017 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($152,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $956k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $814k
- Net assets
- $852k
What Music Mends Minds Inc does
Mission
Music mends minds (mmm) is a nonprofit that creates musical support groups for individuals with alzheimer's, dementia, parkinson's, traumatic brain injury, ptsd, and other neurological disorders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Music mends minds is an eleven-year-old, la-based, global nonprofit that establishes and runs free music therapy and engagement sessions for older adults, especially those facing neurodegenerative issues such as alzheimer's, parkinson's, dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury and ptsd. What began in los angeles in 2014 with the creation of the now famous 5th dementia flagship band is now a multifaceted, global-facing organization that reaches over 5,000 participants, caregivers and family members per month. Along with a great many local, national and international in-person music groups and thrice- weekly musical therapy sessions on zoom, all of them free, our network includes a burgeoning student intern and public education program, and a popular informational podcast series, "music is (see schedule o) medicine, ask the experts".neuroscience has long proven that music influences brain chemistry. Moreover, our favorite music can provide perhaps the last natural bridge to fading memories, creative expression and personal identity. This is especially true when our senses and socialization skills are compromised by illness or trauma, or the contrary side effects of intense…
$233,440 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $233,440.
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 2024 to 2025, from $225k to $855k (+279%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 9% · 2023 13% · 2024 15% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
John Kander Ii
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $13k → $50k.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 MENDS MINDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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 MENDS MINDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
50% 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 MENDS MINDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 41% · 2019 28% · 2020 31% · 2021 33% · 2022 23% · 2023 40% — 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
53% of MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
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
67% of MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $317k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 MENDS MINDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MUSIC MENDS MINDS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 MENDS MINDS INC: 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 MENDS MINDS INC?
- MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,017 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($152,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $814,017 in grants to MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $152,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIC MENDS MINDS INC 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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