California · Nonprofit
Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc
Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,023 to it, the largest being PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc does
Mission
Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras has been organized to provide musical education to young people, creating a positive musical experience that promotes character, self-discipline and achievement, providing a nurturing environment that encourages respect, team work and a life-long appreciation of music and its power to make the world a better place.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Musique Sur La Mer students provide musical performances, as a culmination of the many practice sessions and musical lessons, that give an opportunity for expression and development of the individual who participate in the performances.2025 Achievments 1. Collected over $100,000 in instruments to be distributed to music students and professional musicians who lost their instruments in the 2025 Palisades and Eaton Fires and to local children in need and local schools. So far, we have distributed approximately $70,000 worth of instruments to fire victims and local school children in the Long Beach/Los Alamitos/Seal Beach area. The balance of instruments have been carried over to be distributed in 2026.2. We celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras with a glorious concert and receiption. Broadway superstar Sarah Uriarte Berry sang with the orchestra. Honorees included: The RuMBa Foundation, The Port of Long Beach, The Arts Council for Long Beach, The Downtown Long Beach Business alliance, Run Seal Beach, the City of Long Beach, Park Bixby Tower, Gary and Julie Landis, Tom and Hattie Stretz and former MSLMYSO members of note who have contributed greatly to…
$132,814 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $132,814.
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 2023 to 2024, from $10k to $83k (+741%).
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.
92% of Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras 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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Marcy A Sudock
CEO/Treas
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $114.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras 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
Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $523 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras 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.
Public support
100%
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 Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras 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 Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc?
- Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,023 to it, the largest being PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,023 in grants to Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras Inc?
- PUBLIC CORP FOR THE ARTS OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Musique Sur La Mer Orchestras 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.
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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 3 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