Rhode Island · Nonprofit
Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc
Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $471 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($471). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $471
- Net assets
- $44k
What Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc does
Mission
The organizations primary exempt purpose is to support the Ponaganset High School Music Department and its student in the pursuit of musical excellence and in sharing the fruits of these efforts with the community. The organization runs fundraising events to pay for the annual music festival competition. The students compete against other schools around the country and funds are needed to provide adequate travel arrangements and safety of our students. The organization also provides college scholarships to graduating seniors who plan to pursue their music education further.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Band and Chorus Music Festival costs: Music Directors organize attendance and student performance in a competitive music festival. Costs include participation in the festival student travel costs and costs needed to provide adult chaperones. Number of students range from 40-120 each year.
$74,190 spent92% of program spendingMusic concert costs:The Band and Chorus students hold 6 concerts per year. The organization pays for police and fire presence in case of emergencies. Costs also include credit card fees and concession supplies. Attendance at each concert is typically 100-200 people.
$995 spent1% of program spendingStudent uniforms: The organization pays for new uniforms as well as cleaning and altering of existing uniforms for the students. Number ranges from 40-120 each year.
$1,669 spent2% of program spendingInstrument repairs
$125 spent0% of program spendingCollege scholarships awarded
$563 spent1% of program spendingStudent and Music Director recognition awards
$1,209 spent1% of program spendingSupplies postage miscellaneous
$2,097 spent3% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,848.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $42k to $44k (+6%).
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.
4% of Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $167 → $154.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Ponaganset Music Parents Association 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Ponaganset Music Parents Association 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $471 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
Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Ponaganset Music Parents Association 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc?
- Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc (Rhode Island) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $471 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($471). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $471 in grants to Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $471 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ponaganset Music Parents Association Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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