New York · Nonprofit
MUSIC THAT MAKES COMMUNITY
MUSIC THAT MAKES COMMUNITY (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,300 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $-2614
What Music That Makes Community does
Mission
Offering in-person and online leadership training to help song leaders create and sustain community through singing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2024 Music that Makes Community welcomed a new Executive Director Conie Borchardt into leadership. In addition to bringing her up to speed with operations programming and fundraising we offered over a dozen in-person events several virtual events and co-curated and produced the new Sacred Lands Playlist project with the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.
$50,161 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,161.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $55k to $31k (−44%).
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.
60% of MUSIC THAT MAKES COMMUNITY’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. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Conie Borchardt
Executive Director
Board chair
Breen Sipes
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $25k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 THAT MAKES COMMUNITY’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 THAT MAKES COMMUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
89% 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 THAT MAKES COMMUNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
89% of MUSIC THAT MAKES COMMUNITY'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. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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 THAT MAKES COMMUNITY's revenue fell 37% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MUSIC THAT MAKES COMMUNITY
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
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 THAT MAKES COMMUNITY: 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 THAT MAKES COMMUNITY?
- MUSIC THAT MAKES COMMUNITY (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,300 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSIC THAT MAKES COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $45,300 in grants to MUSIC THAT MAKES COMMUNITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSIC THAT MAKES COMMUNITY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSIC THAT MAKES COMMUNITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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