Arizona · Nonprofit
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM (Arizona) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,145,357 to it, the largest being Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund ($112,875,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Fiesta Events Incshared funderslocal
- Dorothy Richard Starling Foundationportfolio match
- West Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $8.9M → $15M.
22 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 INSTRUMENT MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 funders by total. 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 INSTRUMENT MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 INSTRUMENT MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 91% · 2023 93% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
97% of MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM'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 $4.1M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 26 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 124 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fiesta Events Incshared funderslocalAZ · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 158 organizations near you
- Dorothy Richard Starling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Howard L Gottlieb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ann & Gordon Getty Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D'Addario Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kurt Weill Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wender Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E Nakamichi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kanter Kallman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- JS Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$38k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM?
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM (Arizona) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,145,357 to it, the largest being Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund ($112,875,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $119,145,357 in grants to MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM?
- Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund is the largest funder on record, with $112,875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 124funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing