Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MUSICONNECTS INC
MUSICONNECTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $677,764 to it, the largest being The Klarman Family Foundation ($163,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $678k
- Net assets
- $206k
What Musiconnects Inc does
Mission
To model and teach self-expression, peer leadership and community development through the transformative power of chamber music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Residency program provides individual string instrument lessons, chamber music, and group instruction, as well as mentoring to approx. 60 underserved youth at low to no cost to families. Lessons taught by members of the organization's seven professional string musicians. The roslindale community program provides individual string instrument lessons and chamber music classes to students from across boston neighborhoods, with tuition paid on a sliding scale, making it accessible to all. Lessons taught by members of the organization's seven professional string musicians. The organization's resident string musicians give public performances in diverse boston-area neighborhoods, including those that have little access to live classical music. The organization serves approximately 1,000 audience members per year.
$204,034 spent$43,983 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,034.
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 2024 to 2025, from $441k to $216k (−51%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 16% · 2022 13% · 2024 21% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of MUSICONNECTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $50k → $97k.
3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MUSICONNECTS 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
MUSICONNECTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 57% · 2019 30% · 2020 41% · 2021 34% · 2022 26% · 2023 26% — 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
53% of MUSICONNECTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
72% of MUSICONNECTS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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
MUSICONNECTS INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MUSICONNECTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $247k on record — $20k federal, $227k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$227k
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 MUSICONNECTS 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 MUSICONNECTS INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSICONNECTS INC?
- MUSICONNECTS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $677,764 to it, the largest being The Klarman Family Foundation ($163,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSICONNECTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $677,764 in grants to MUSICONNECTS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSICONNECTS INC?
- The Klarman Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $163,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSICONNECTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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