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Music Resource Center - Cincinnati

Music Resource Center - Cincinnati (Ohio) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,120 to it, the largest being Charles H Dater Foundation Inc ($135,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$77k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$705k
Net assets
$0
10/23 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Music Resource Center - Cincinnati does

Mission

MRC Cincinnati is a Multi-Faceted teen center that uses recording and performing arts, as well as life skills, to create a sense of empowerment and accomplishment in the urban community. Our mission is to educate and inspire young people through music and equip them with life skills for the future.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

Music Resource Center was dissolved and all remaining assets were transferred to YMCA of Greater Cincinnati.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).

  1. Operate an after school teen center and music recording studio for teens in Grades 7 through 12 to learn computer music production, recording and take music lessons. MRC operates a 7,900 Sq. Ft. facility and offers members access to multi-track recording studios, project studios, rehearsal spaces, performance opportunities, and mentoring. The MRC studio is open Monday - Thursday from 2PM to 7PM and includes summer hours.

    $48,214 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. MRC Partners with local organizations and schools to provide digital recording instruction. Teens work collaboratively in groups and learn to make a beat, write a song and record original music.

The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $48,214.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($322k) Expenses 100 ($341k) Net assets 100 ($219k)2018 Revenue 102 ($330k) Expenses 104 ($353k) Net assets 104 ($228k)2019 Revenue 102 ($329k) Expenses 103 ($353k) Net assets 102 ($225k)2020 Revenue 98 ($317k) Expenses 79 ($268k) Net assets 124 ($272k)2021 Revenue 112 ($363k) Expenses 90 ($307k) Net assets 150 ($328k)2022 Revenue 24 ($77k) Expenses 14 ($48k) Net assets 0 ($0)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (24)Expenses (14)Net assets (0)

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 $465k to $0 (−100%).

$411k
$427k
$373k
$410k
$465k
$0
201720182019202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2020 29% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
−$23k
’18
−$24k
’19
$49k
’20
$56k
’21
$29k
’22
6.2
months of
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.

201720182019202020212022
Listed121515141414
Joined·+5+4+7+1+0
No longer listed·24810
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $48k → $47k.

4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Resource Center - Cincinnati’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 Resource Center - Cincinnati 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

42% 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 Resource Center - Cincinnati.

19%
largest funder
47%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 33% · 2019 23% · 2020 23% · 2021 34% · 2022 54% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.

“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

29% of Music Resource Center - Cincinnati's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of Music Resource Center - Cincinnati's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

NY
OH
PA
KY
TN
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Music Resource Center - Cincinnati

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds Music Resource Center - Cincinnati?
Music Resource Center - Cincinnati (Ohio) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $705,120 to it, the largest being Charles H Dater Foundation Inc ($135,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Music Resource Center - Cincinnati have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $705,120 in grants to Music Resource Center - Cincinnati, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Music Resource Center - Cincinnati?
Charles H Dater Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Music Resource Center - Cincinnati find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 23 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