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MUSIQA

MUSIQA (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $865,858 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($205,600). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$336k
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$866k
Net assets
$201k
16/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Musiqa does

Mission

Performing and educating audiences and students of contemporary classical music, Musiqa enriches and inspires the Houston community through programs that integrate music with other art forms.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Major Concerts - Musiqa presented over 100 artists with opportunities to showcase their skills and engaged more than 56,000 people in arts experiences in the Houston area and beyond through in-person and digital content. Musiqa presented a series of collaborations with local and national composers, artists and musicians, including programs featuring dance, photography, film, video projection and poetry. Concerts featured world premieres of music by emerging composers as well as established Houston artists and diverse voices from around nation. Musiqa gained a large number of new audience members: 58% of patrons in the 2023-24 season were self-proclaimed first-time attendees to a Musiqa performance.

    $61,538 spent$13,270 earned by the program
    29% of program spending
  2. Outside Performances and Education Programs -Musiqa grew its MusiqaLab program fostering young composers at Madison High School, a Title 1 school in Houston, expanded opportunities to young people regionally with master classes, presented free performances at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and elsewhere, provided opportunities to young artists by hosting and administering their projects, and continued to administer a new consortium offering opportunities to emerging Black, Latinx and Indigenous composers.

    $25,060 spent$5,000 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  3. Harmony in the Air Public Performance - Musiqa expanded access to high quality artistic experiences around Houston, providing employment to artists at varying stages of their careers. They performed for a large number of travelers to Houston at Hobby Airport through participation in Houston Airport System's "Harmony in the Air" program.

    $19,650 spent$19,800 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  4. Musiqa receives Ticket Sales, Workshop and Promotional Sales revenue.

    $104,183 spent$25,198 earned by the program
    50% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $210,431.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($245k) Expenses 100 ($201k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2022 Revenue 91 ($223k) Expenses 119 ($240k) Net assets 74 ($44k)2023 Revenue 141 ($346k) Expenses 130 ($262k) Net assets 210 ($124k)2024 Revenue 151 ($370k) Expenses 141 ($284k) Net assets 356 ($209k)2025 Revenue 137 ($336k) Expenses 171 ($344k) Net assets 342 ($201k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (137)Expenses (171)Net assets (342)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 $130k to $216k (+67%).

$89k
$46k
$130k
$216k
$209k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 22% · 2022 31% · 2023 16% · 2024 19% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of MUSIQA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$44k
’21
−$17k
’22
$83k
’23
$86k
’24
−$8k
’25
7.2
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed1715111011
Joined·+1+2+1+1
No longer listed·3620
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $67k → $104k.

4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 MUSIQA’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

MUSIQA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

52% 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 MUSIQA.

24%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 31% · 2019 25% · 2020 31% · 2021 33% · 2022 58% · 2023 29% — 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

47% of MUSIQA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

90% of MUSIQA's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
NY
CA
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

MUSIQA is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding MUSIQA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $73k on record.

Federal$73k
grants $73kcontracts $0
20
21
24
25
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$73k

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 MUSIQA

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 Texas

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 7%Fundraising 15%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

68%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MUSIQA?
MUSIQA (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $865,858 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($205,600). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MUSIQA have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $865,858 in grants to MUSIQA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MUSIQA?
HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $205,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MUSIQA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), 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