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Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc

Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $644,081 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($318,656). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$364k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$644k
Net assets
$-68412
8/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc does

Mission

Musical Mentors Collaborative is a nonprofit that provides student-centered music instruction and mentorship to under-resourced communities, addressing structural inequities in music education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Musical Mentors Collaborative is a nonprofit that provides student-centered music instruction and mentorship to under-resourced communities, addressing structural inequities in music education.

    $253,047 spent$34,813 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $253,047.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 100 ($34k)2021 Revenue 479 ($408k) Expenses 624 ($353k) Net assets 260 ($89k)2022 Revenue 320 ($272k) Expenses 546 ($309k) Net assets 152 ($52k)2023 Revenue 320 ($273k) Expenses 502 ($284k) Net assets 118 ($41k)2024 Revenue 663 ($564k) Expenses 853 ($483k) Net assets 356 ($122k)2025 Revenue 427 ($364k) Expenses 978 ($554k) Net assets -200 ($-68412)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (427)Expenses (978)Net assets (-200)Peer revenue range

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 $42k to $145k (+246%).

$34k
$95k
$70k
$42k
$145k
$48k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 21% · 2024 14% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$28k
’20
$55k
’21
−$37k
’22
−$11k
’23
$81k
’24
−$190k
’25
1.0
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.

Chief executive

Kathryn Sansone

Executive Director

Board chair

Zack Susel

Board President and Founder

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed27898
Joined··+1+1+0
No longer listed··001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $1k → $121k.

8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Mentors Collaborative 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 Mentors Collaborative Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

82% 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 Mentors Collaborative Inc.

49%
largest funder
75%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 64% · 2023 50% — 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

20% of Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

76% of Musical Mentors Collaborative 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 $157k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
IA
OH
CO
TN
FL

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

’20
’21
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $487k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Against its field

Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−52% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)34% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

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 Mentors Collaborative 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

46% of spending goes to programs.

Program 46%Management 25%Fundraising 29%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

45%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc?
Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $644,081 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($318,656). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $644,081 in grants to Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $318,656 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Musical Mentors Collaborative Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 17 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