Iowa · Nonprofit
NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC
NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,182 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ($172,635). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $292k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $346k
- Net assets
- $216k
What Northeast Iowa School of Music does
Mission
The Northeast Iowa School of Music (NISOM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in the greater Tri-State area community by meeting the music education and enrichment needs of people of all ages and abilities through private lessons, group classes, music therapy, performance opportunities, ensembles, concerts, and outreach programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Northeast Iowa School of Music is a place where young children are allowed to explore their creativity through music. School children can expand their musical horizons. College students can continue their music training and prepare for a music career. Adults can take those music lessons they have always wanted to take. Students can expand their general knowledge of music through a variety of classes. Northeast Iowa School of Music is a central facility to serve students of all ages and a place to improve the quality of life in the Tri-State area through music. During the fiscal year, Northeast Iowa School of Music provided music lessons for 246 students.
$232,074 spent$211,146 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $232,074.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $122k to $208k (+70%).
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: 2018 6% · 2019 8% · 2020 16% · 2021 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 11% · 2024 4% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $22k → $50k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF 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
NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 55% · 2019 47% · 2020 75% · 2021 64% · 2022 62% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“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 NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
86% of NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $296k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC's revenue grew 17% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC?
- NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Iowa) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $346,182 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ($172,635). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $346,182 in grants to NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE is the largest funder on record, with $172,635 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHEAST IOWA SCHOOL OF MUSIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2018–2025), 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