Connecticut · Nonprofit
PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC
PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,417,756 to it, the largest being Marks Family Foundation ($950,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $478k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $693k
What Project Music Heals US Inc does
Mission
Project: music heals us provides encouragement, education and healing by offering high-quality live music performances and interactive, educational programming to marginalized communities with limited ability to access the arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our vital sounds initiative (vsi) program offers live, virtual bedside concerts to isolated patients in healthcare facilities, providing encouragement and compassion to patients with minimal strain on caregivers. Our vsi grant program facilitated additional concert sessions through partnerships with 3 different 501(c)3 organizations.
$74,046 spent13% of program spendingPmhu's music for the future (mftf) program brings composition and song-writing workshops to incarcerated students, and also offers in-person, interactive concerts at facilities across the country. Partners include the juilliard school extension division and five keys schools & programs.
$395,844 spent71% of program spendingThe novel voices (nv) distance learning program provides international community music organizations with free access to live, virtual music lessons, master classes and teacher-training workshops, taught by faculty members of leading u.s. Conservatories. Partners include the edward said national conservatory of music and the ghetto classics community music school.
$84,763 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $554,653.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $283k to $949k (+236%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 5% · 2023 18% · 2024 2% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Bridget Budish
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $23k → $360k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. 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
PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 84% · 2020 62% · 2021 80% · 2022 68% · 2023 83% — 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
11% of PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $298k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $93k on record — $45k federal, $48k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
- State Aid Grants$33k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$15k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC: 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 PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC?
- PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,417,756 to it, the largest being Marks Family Foundation ($950,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,417,756 in grants to PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC?
- Marks Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT MUSIC HEALS US INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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