California · Nonprofit
NationalAssociationof Music Merchants
NationalAssociationof Music Merchants (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being MARTIN GUITAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $30M
What NationalAssociationof Music Merchants does
Mission
NAMM's mission is to strengthen the music products industry and promote the pleasures and benefits of making music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The association funds market development programs that benefit the music products industry with the overall objective of increasing the number of active music makers of all ages. This objective is accomplished by funding many programs in music education and research projects that emphasize the many benefits that music can provide.
The association conducts one trade show and convention that was held to offer music dealers the opportunity to view new products and techniques for improving their businesses. Seminars and educational sessions are held in connection with this convention.
The association has a professional development program to provide music dealers and manufacturer's representatives with the necessary training to improve their business and provide their staff with additional sales training techniques, management training and other educational opportunities. The association also provides its members with vital information regarding the music products industry including newsletters and other publications.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $52M to $38M (−27%).
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.
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
John Mlynczak
President & CEO
Board chair
Chris White
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NationalAssociationof Music Merchants’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.
Where its funders are
NationalAssociationof Music Merchants draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like NationalAssociationof Music Merchants
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- NAMM International LLC · disregarded
- NAMM Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NationalAssociationof Music Merchants: 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 NationalAssociationof Music Merchants?
- NationalAssociationof Music Merchants (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being MARTIN GUITAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NationalAssociationof Music Merchants have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to NationalAssociationof Music Merchants, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NationalAssociationof Music Merchants?
- MARTIN GUITAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NationalAssociationof Music Merchants 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.
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 1 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