California · Nonprofit
MUSICIANS FOUNDATION
MUSICIANS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,165 to it, the largest being D'ADDARIO FOUNDATION INC ($13,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MUSICIANS FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 16,609 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Pasadena Showcase House For The Artslocalportfolio match
- The Carnegie Hall Corporationshared funders
- Colburn Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
33% of MUSICIANS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $37.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 MUSICIANS FOUNDATION’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
MUSICIANS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 71% · 2019 71% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
MUSICIANS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Pasadena Showcase House For The Artslocalportfolio matchCA · funds 98 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Carnegie Hall Corporationshared fundersNY · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
- Colburn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Natalie Cole Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Santa Barbara Bowl Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dorothy Richard Starling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter & Masha Plotkin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ussga Memorial Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundationshared fundersMO · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like MUSICIANS FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
15%
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 MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: 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 MUSICIANS FOUNDATION?
- MUSICIANS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,165 to it, the largest being D'ADDARIO FOUNDATION INC ($13,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSICIANS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $21,165 in grants to MUSICIANS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSICIANS FOUNDATION?
- D'ADDARIO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSICIANS FOUNDATION 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 5funders 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