New Hampshire · Nonprofit
MUSIC ON NORWAY POND
MUSIC ON NORWAY POND (New Hampshire) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,750 to it, the largest being CORNELIA AND MICHAEL BESSIE FOUNDATION ($7,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $98k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Music on Norway Pond does
Mission
Music concert series adult chorus youth chorus
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We curate and present professional musicians in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire for a series of affordably priced concerts in the non-summer months. Approximately 60 musicians performed for a combined in-person audience of about 2,000 people.
$39,379 spent59% of program spendingOur womens chorus is joined by men and the children of our Jr. Mints program for an annual sold-out holiday concert. The womens chorus also presents other concerts at retirement communities and other venues.
$15,635 spent23% of program spendingThis year our youth group participated by themselves and with our adult chorus and hired professionals in our annual holiday concert and put on their own outdoor concert in June of the music of American icon Pete Seeger for an audience of about 200.
$11,910 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,924.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $44k to $56k (+29%).
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.
59% of MUSIC ON NORWAY POND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Richard Simpson
Executive Director
Board chair
Ann Conway
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $300 → $4k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 ON NORWAY POND’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 ON NORWAY POND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2022 63% · 2023 57% — 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
MUSIC ON NORWAY POND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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 ON NORWAY POND 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 ON NORWAY POND
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 Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
89%
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 ON NORWAY POND: 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 ON NORWAY POND?
- MUSIC ON NORWAY POND (New Hampshire) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,750 to it, the largest being CORNELIA AND MICHAEL BESSIE FOUNDATION ($7,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSIC ON NORWAY POND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $28,750 in grants to MUSIC ON NORWAY POND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIC ON NORWAY POND?
- CORNELIA AND MICHAEL BESSIE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIC ON NORWAY POND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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