California · Nonprofit
Notes for Education Inc
Notes for Education Inc (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $985,160 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($373,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $697k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $985k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Notes for Education Inc does
Mission
The purpose of this organization is to promote and support the advancement of music and art education and literacy through public, private and parochial schools and other educational institutions for school-age children in the County of Napa, CA and the City of Nashville, TN and beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Napa Valley Education Foundation - The Music Connection continues to be a primary program for NOTES providing low-cost rental to students to use during their academic year music lessons. NOTES purchased instruments for their rental program and also supported summer school camps.
$156,242 spentof which $144,518 as grants64% of program spendingNapa Valley Youth Symphony - participating in a Youth Symphony is a pinacle of achievement for students. The regular Youth Symphony provides the students with advance lessons and instructions but these students have often had the opportunity for lessons as they grew up. Many talented students never get that opportunity so NOTES partnered with the NVYS to create the NOTES program which takes beginner music students with an interest in symphony and provides them with instruction. These students can participare until 7 grade at which time they must transition to the Youth Symphony.
$65,000 spentof which $65,000 as grants27% of program spendingMayacamus Charter Middle School - supporting the creating of music programs is core to our mission. At Mayacamus, we purchased guitars, amplifiers, drums and microphones for the classroom.
$21,285 spentof which $21,285 as grants9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $242,527.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $2.0M (+23%).
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.
78% of Notes for Education 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. 1 of the last 7 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 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $38k → $156k.
10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Notes for Education 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
Notes for Education Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 Notes for Education Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 65% · 2019 21% · 2020 50% · 2021 62% · 2022 26% · 2023 29% — 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
8% of Notes for Education Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
68% of Notes for Education Inc'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 $315k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $670k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Notes for Education Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Notes for Education 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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
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 Notes for Education 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 Notes for Education Inc?
- Notes for Education Inc (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $985,160 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($373,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Notes for Education Inc have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $985,160 in grants to Notes for Education Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Notes for Education Inc?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $373,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Notes for Education 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing