South Dakota · Nonprofit
NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)
NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) (South Dakota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,519,662 to it, the largest being The Joe R & Joella F Utley Foundation Inc ($651,753). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Sioux Empire United Way Incshared funderslocal
- The NBK Foundationportfolio match
- The American-Scandinavian 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 10% · 2023 42% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $120k → $413k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)’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 MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 55% · 2019 86% · 2020 63% · 2021 60% · 2022 33% · 2023 27% — 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
60% of NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $312k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sioux Empire United Way Incshared funderslocalSD · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 52 organizations near you
- The NBK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The American-Scandinavian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nebraska Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Dakota Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bravo Greater Des Moines Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- JS Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lauridsen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fargo-Moorhead Convention & Visitors Bureau Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$60k
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 MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC): 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 NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)?
- NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) (South Dakota) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,519,662 to it, the largest being The Joe R & Joella F Utley Foundation Inc ($651,753). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,519,662 in grants to NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC), 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)?
- The Joe R & Joella F Utley Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $651,753 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 20funders 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