New York · Nonprofit
Opportunity Music Project
Opportunity Music Project (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,270 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA B TOULMIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION III ($325,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $152k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $701k
- Net assets
- $68k
What Opportunity Music Project does
Mission
We promote diversity in the arts, and expand access for young artists historically underrepresented in classical music. The mission of Opportunity Music Project is to create a community where all children, regardless of economic background, can pursue their passion for music and gain the valuable personal and collaborative skills associated with the rigors of learning an instrument. Opportunity Music Project began in April 2011 with seven students. The program now serves a community of 125 students ages 4 years old to 18 years old from all boroughs of New York City.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
This project locates dedicated families with a child interested in music and offers them the opportunity to take private music lessons. A pilar of the project is the element of service that students in turn provide to their community by giving back in the form of recitals to social groups such as the elderly and homeless. Students and their families become active owners of their project.
$125,463 spentof which $68,795 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $125,463.
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 2017 to 2018, from $59k to $174k (+194%).
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 3% · 2019 6% · 2020 18% · 2021 17% · 2022 21% · 2023 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Opportunity Music Project’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. 5 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 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $111k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Opportunity Music Project’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
Opportunity Music Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 79% · 2020 68% · 2021 94% · 2022 77% · 2023 90% — 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
29% of Opportunity Music Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
Opportunity Music Project draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Opportunity Music Project's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Opportunity Music Project
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
82%
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 Opportunity Music Project: 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 Opportunity Music Project?
- Opportunity Music Project (New York) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,270 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA B TOULMIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION III ($325,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Opportunity Music Project have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $701,270 in grants to Opportunity Music Project, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Opportunity Music Project?
- VIRGINIA B TOULMIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION III is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Opportunity Music Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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