Georgia · Nonprofit
MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC
MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($90,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $156k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Musical Dramatic Arts Foundation Inc does
Mission
Per Article I, Section 2 of the establishing Bylaws, the specific purpose for which the Corporation is organized is to provide charitable and humanitarian services and to also engage in activities which are necessary, suitable or convenient for the accomplishment of that purpose, or which are incidental thereto or connected therewith which are consistent with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
IMPACT: Supporting the development and production/performance impact of musical-dramatic works with inspirational themes that move audiences at scale (including 'I Dream', 'Diva').
$8,452 spent34% of program spendingACCESS: Producing or performing musical dramatic works with inspirational themes in an accessible context.
$6,592 spent26% of program spendingEDUCATION: (1) Developing and producing musical-dramatic works with inspirational themes, adjacent to growth-oriented opportunities; and (2) nurturing emerging storytellers and voices in k-12, higher educational and professional settings.
$9,886 spent40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $24,930.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $76k to $27k (−65%).
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.
100% of MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Douglas Tappin
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION 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
MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC.
“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
66% of MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION 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. Of the $53k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k 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
MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($90,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $156,000 in grants to MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSICAL DRAMATIC ARTS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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