Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND
PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $277,309 to it, the largest being THE CLAYMAN FOUNDATION ($160,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $277k
- Net assets
- $0
What Philadelphia Music Alliance Dba Pma Music Fund does
Mission
The philadelphia music alliance promotes the vast contributions of philadelphians to all music genres and encourages emerging artists and students toward achieving musical excellence. In addition, the alliance creates, supports and sponsors programs and events that enrich and strengthen philadelphia's musical community. Our best known creation is the walk of fame, a must see tourist attraction on philadelphia's dazzling avenue of the arts. Some of such programs as described above are currently in existence. There will always be additional methods developed and implemented to enrich our local music culture and to assist its participants.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Work on publication of the philadelphia music book
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Work on the publication of the philadelphia music book
$124,400 spent$91,400 earned by the program75% of program spendingSummits- a series taking place - offering high school students engaged in music studies to hear from industry experts. Topics include the creative and business sides of the music industry, with a career path focus. Students are chosen from music programs in the philadelphia school district, as well as musicopia, rock 2 the future and dash.
$32,700 spent20% of program spendingPhiladelphia music and arts festival and website information
$5,286 spentof which $2,500 as grants3% of program spendingPartnership with musicopia to support gift of music program. Philadelphia music alliance provides a yearly grant to musicopia to support their various programs relating to music education and enrichment for students and their communities.
$3,300 spentof which $3,300 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $165,686.
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 2024 to 2025, from $182k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2024 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% 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.
Board chair
Alan Rubens
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $31k → $89k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND’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
PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND: 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 PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND?
- PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $277,309 to it, the largest being THE CLAYMAN FOUNDATION ($160,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $277,309 in grants to PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND?
- THE CLAYMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA MUSIC ALLIANCE DBA PMA MUSIC FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 6 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