Tennessee · Nonprofit
Music Neighbors Inc
Music Neighbors Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,106 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($24,000). 2 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 FY2025
- $69k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Music Neighbors Inc does
Mission
To better the community through music and education. Our mission is to strengthen Nashvilles music community by providing local musicians a stable foundation to promote their music while educating and connecting the public to performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our program Play It Forward Sessions provides free professional recording and video production services to music artists to create and produce new songs. Artists fully own the rights to their music thats recorded. Our video packages are utilized for the artists EPKS Electronic Press Kits that help build their careers in the music industry. In FY25 13 full-day recording sessions were hosted 31 songs created and 78 artists supported. 11 of the 12 participating artist projects chose to received stipends to cover the expenses artists incur for the production of the songs. These funds must be used for hiring session players to perform on the songs recorded to hire a producer for the songs recorded and or to hire an audio engineer for the mixing mastering of the recordings. Additionally we began curation and advertising for our FY26 programming season in the fall of 2025.
$34,553 spent76% of program spendingCelebrate Music City Festival Series is our nonprofits free all ages community music festival series that celebrates Nashvilles local music scene and features a wide variety of music genres. This is a celebration of music and how it fosters community and culture through art. In FY25 3 festivals sere held 50 artists supported and 600 people attended. The performing artists received payment for their performances during the event they were a part of. We also record live performance videos during the events for each performer to help create professional videos for their EPKs.
$5,738 spent13% of program spendingOur Mix It Up Showcase program features alumni from our Play It Forward Sessions program in a multi-genre concert series. These events are free for the general public to attend. Our intention is to connect different cultures and communities together through live music. We also want to showcase the variety of music in Nashvilles music scene. In FY25 there were 4 concerts held 52 artists supported and 415 attendees.
$2,783 spent6% of program spendingOur Good Neighbors Listen program advocates for the therapeutic benefits of music for wellness mental health and emotional support. We curated a breakout session at RX Illicit Drug Summit at Opryland Convention Center. The 3 participating artists received a performance payment to perform in front of a 1500 person audience and share their recovery journeys with medical professionals and social workers that have careers helping people with substance abuse issues. We also began curation and advertising for our FY26 concert series for this program in the fall of 2025.
$2,432 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,506.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jason Garriott
Executive Director
Board chair
Ellen Crowley
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $14k.
2 of 2 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 Neighbors 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 Neighbors Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 Neighbors Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of Music Neighbors Inc'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. $24k 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 Neighbors Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 Neighbors 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 Neighbors 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 Neighbors Inc?
- Music Neighbors Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,106 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($24,000). 2 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 Neighbors Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $24,106 in grants to Music Neighbors Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Music Neighbors Inc?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $24,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Music Neighbors Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2025–2025), 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