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PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation

PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,795 to it, the largest being OAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($72,463). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$181k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$84k
Net assets
$270k
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation does

Mission

To provide instruments and music education to children in need.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provide band and orchestra instruments, along with maintenance, repairs, upgrades, and accessories for thoseinstruments to 4th - 12th graders who face financial barriers

    $13,795 spent
    40% of program spending
  2. Provide access to music programming (mentoring, lessons, camps,trips, concerts, etc.) to those students to be on equal footingwith these peers

    $20,897 spentof which $1,275 as grants
    60% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,692.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($180k)2023 Revenue 115 ($107k) Expenses 254 ($108k) Net assets 99 ($179k)2024 Revenue 125 ($116k) Expenses 228 ($97k) Net assets 110 ($198k)2025 Revenue 195 ($181k) Expenses 257 ($109k) Net assets 150 ($270k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (195)Expenses (257)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

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 $198k to $270k (+37%).

$180k
$179k
$198k
$270k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

92% of PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
’22
−$1k
’23
$19k
’24
$72k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Michelle Dybal

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $13k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation’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

PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation.

86%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 88% · 2020 46% · 2021 94% · 2022 59% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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

87% of PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin40% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation: 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 PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation?
PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,795 to it, the largest being OAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($72,463). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $83,795 in grants to PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation?
OAK PARK-RIVER FOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $72,463 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PING Providing Instruments For The Next Generation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2022–2025), 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