Virginia · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,167 to it, the largest being THE CMA FOUNDATION ($82,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $163k
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION does
Mission
NAfME is a collaborative community that supports music educators and advocates for equitable access to music education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership growth and development: Activites undertaken to promote membership in the Association includes print and digital marketing campaigns targeting active, retired, and prospective music educators.These campaigns highlight membership opportunities as well as programs available to members, members, such as professional development, events, publications, digital community engagement and voting, special offers, and state affiliations. Efforts also includes development and promotion of new member benefits.
$687,591 spentof which $17,500 as grants$4,781,922 earned by the program17% of program spendingMember and student experiences: The Association provides in-person and virtual performance and educational opportunties for middle school, high school, and collegiate students, supported by print and digital marketing campaigns to members and non-members. Programs include the International Tri-M Music Honor Society, competitions, Music In Our Schools Month, and research assistance programs.
$645,538 spent$800,693 earned by the program16% of program spendingCapacity Building: Ensure data-driven fiscal practices and decision-making to advance the Association and the profession it serves. Build and maintain relationships and technological capacity that enable the Association, state affiliates, and individual members to achieve differentiated goals within a unified national structure, -Increase membership across existing and new categories. - Develop national and state leadership, - Maintain a fiscally sound Assocciation. - Secure funding to support NAFME initiatives and projects - Exemplify the Associations mission, vision, an values.
$1,087,015 spent$31,445 earned by the program27% of program spendingPublications
$576,226 spent$215,056 earned by the program14% of program spendingGovernance
$300,270 spent8% of program spendingStrategic Relationship Development
$133,198 spent$135,141 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther programs
$559,831 spentof which $240,020 as grants$170,684 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,989,669.
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 2018 to 2019, from $8.1M to $11M (+38%).
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: 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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.
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.
Chief executive
Christopher Woodside
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $81k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION’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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 91% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 49% — 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
50% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4k 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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $105k on record — $65k federal, $40k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$65k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$39k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES$350
- OFFICE SUPPLIES$146
- PERMIT/CERTS/TRANS/MISFEE/LICS$124
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$100
- FREIGHT$15
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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,167 to it, the largest being THE CMA FOUNDATION ($82,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $163,167 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION?
- THE CMA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 8 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