California · Nonprofit
Palm Springs International Piano Competition
Palm Springs International Piano Competition (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $370,476 to it, the largest being MURIEL MCBRIEN KAUFFMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $367k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $370k
- Net assets
- $711k
What Palm Springs International Piano Competition does
Mission
The mission of the Palm Springs International Piano Competition is to excite, educate, and engage the community at large with the joy of classical piano by presenting, promoting, and nurturing classical music through live piano performance including international competitions, concerts, and local education outreach programs for all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024 Virginia Waring International Piano Competition dba Palm Springs International Piano Competition offered four concerts featuring world-renowned pianists in the Coachella Valley. At each concert, complimentary tickets were provided to the communitys senior citizens and high school students. In addition to the public concerts, private in-school concerts were offered for schools within the Palm Springs Unified School District. More than 350 elementary and high school students attended concerts at their school. A post-concert Q & A session allowed students to better understand the educational requirements for a career in music, music performance and music education. The hands-on keyboard classes were expanded with a keen focus on low-income student populations. More than 200 hours of instruction were provided to elementary school-aged students, including those students participating in a home school setting. Volunteers are integral to the success of our programming. Approximately 56 volunteers provided more than 300 hours during the fiscal year.
$163,990 spent$110,891 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $163,990.
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 2023 to 2024, from $457k to $967k (+112%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2021 30% · 2022 1% · 2023 19% · 2024 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $38k → $41k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Palm Springs International Piano Competition’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
Palm Springs International Piano Competition has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
31% 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 Palm Springs International Piano Competition.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 35% · 2019 63% · 2020 33% · 2021 96% · 2022 47% · 2023 39% — 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
36% of Palm Springs International Piano Competition's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
Palm Springs International Piano Competition draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like Palm Springs International Piano Competition
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 Palm Springs International Piano Competition: 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 Palm Springs International Piano Competition?
- Palm Springs International Piano Competition (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $370,476 to it, the largest being MURIEL MCBRIEN KAUFFMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Palm Springs International Piano Competition have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $370,476 in grants to Palm Springs International Piano Competition, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Palm Springs International Piano Competition?
- MURIEL MCBRIEN KAUFFMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Palm Springs International Piano Competition 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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