California · Nonprofit
MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC
MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,109,553 to it, the largest being DTCare ($2,173,907). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 191
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Musicares Foundation Inc does
Mission
Musicares helps the humans behind the music because music gives so much to the world. Musicares provides a safety net of critical health and welfare services to the music community in three key areas:mental health & addiction recovery: support, referrals, and emergency financial assistance for counseling, psychiatric care, inpatient treatment, coaching, intensive outpatient care, sober living, and more.health services: financial assistance during medical crises and preventive services such as dental and medical screenings, hearing clinics, vocal health workshops, and assistance obtaining low-cost health insurance.human services: support for basic living expenses like rent, utilities, car payments and insurance premiums in times of hardship, plus programs addressing affordable housing, career development, legal issues, and senior services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In response to the extreme fires and unprecedented devastation in january 2025 in los angeles, musicares launched disaster relief efforts to directly assist eligible music professionals in need. Aid includes $1,500 in financial assistance and a $500 grocery card for near-term needs such as necessities and evacuation costs. Musicares also provides additional, more substantial support for individuals with considerable impact, including assistance for damaged equipment, medical needs, and rental assistance.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Financial assistance: musicares provides up to $10,000 annually for emergency basic living, medical, or other needs with a lifetime maximum of $20,000. Under extraordinary circumstances, grants may be extended to $25,000 based upon a unique need. Assistance is provided to recording industry personnel, including creative and technical personnel (I.e., musicians, composers, engineers, producers, etc.), music business staff (I.e., record label staff, management companies, entertainment attorneys, music retailers), and other members of the music community who have been employed in the industry for at least five years or who have credits on six commercially released singles. These grants are made available to music people facing an unforeseen medical, personal, or financial crisis. This can include payments for health care professionals and prescriptions, rent/mortgage payments, health insurance premiums, and costs for other basic living support services. Through its community outreach and education programs, the foundation also provides workshops, seminars, and individual consultations to members of the music community on topics related to general health and human service needs. It…
$9,553,269 spentof which $7,632,895 as grants43% of program spendingIn response to the extreme fires and unprecedented devastation in january 2025 in los angeles, musicares launched disaster relief efforts to directly assist eligible music professionals in need. Aid includes $1,500 in financial assistance and a $500 grocery card for near-term needs such as necessities and evacuation costs. Musicares also provides additional, more substantial support for individuals with considerable impact, including assistance for damaged equipment, medical needs, and rental assistance.
$8,174,245 spentof which $7,310,052 as grants37% of program spendingMental health & addiction recovery (formerly map fund): musicares provides emergency financial assistance to individuals within the music community facing addiction. Assistance limits are $20,000 per year with a lifetime limit of $20,000. The program may provide payment for inpatient treatment, sober living, and/or other expenses related to recovery. The program also provides a support network of recovery resources for music people who are touring throughout the country. In addition, the foundation provides workshops and coordinates meetings of industry professionals to discuss the problems of chemical dependency and discuss specific strategies for intervention for individuals within the music community.
$2,068,747 spentof which $1,261,772 as grants9% of program spendingMusicares also provides various grants to other tax-exempt organizations, gathers the music community for a day of service, hosts showcase concerts to educate the community and provide services, and provides disaster relief aid.
$2,321,444 spentof which $1,628,498 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,117,705.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $24M to $29M (+21%).
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.
102% of MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Steve Boom
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.2M.
42 of 191 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 191 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
MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
71% 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 MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 13% · 2019 24% · 2020 19% · 2021 19% · 2022 21% · 2023 9% — 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
26% of MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% 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
MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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
MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MUSICARES 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC?
- MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,109,553 to it, the largest being DTCare ($2,173,907). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 191 organizations giving $17,109,553 in grants to MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC?
- DTCare is the largest funder on record, with $2,173,907 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 191 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing