Connecticut · Nonprofit
PROJECT MUSIC INC
PROJECT MUSIC INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $780,227 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($250,166). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $480k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $780k
- Net assets
- $198k
What Project Music Inc does
Mission
Project music advances the critical life skills of stamford youth through free music education, free instruments, mentoring and performance opportunities. The program is provided at no cost to students most in need of access, inspiration and opportunity. Project music is an after-school music program designed to create social change and nurture promising futures for youth in stamford, ct city neighborhoods, where 90%+ of student participants are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in school. Inspired by the el sistema movement, project music serves students four afternoons each week, providing an intensive after-school musical environment for them as well as deep relationships with their musical ensemble and teachers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Project music has maintained a steady annual growth at our king site, offering over 10,000 hours of instruction. We are in the process of finalizing a partnership with the boys and girls club of stamford which will allow us to address our growing waitlist and provide services to 50+ more students. Our students continue to perform in our program and in the stamford community, raising awareness for our program and receiving valuable public-facing performance opportunities. Our organization partnered with the mayor's youth employment program and welcomed a summer intern in addition to our internal learn & earn program.as a part of our whole-child model, we've maintained our provision of transportation to our king site, continued to offer meal-replacement snacks, and offered academic tutoring. Our advanced students had the opportunity to attend intensive music camps across new york, connecticut, main, costa rica, baltimore, and more!we've expanded our community partnerships, now totaling over 30 that enable our work and help us serve the community. Students enrolled in our program hail from 26 different schools across fairfield county.
$321,281 spentof which $2,690 as grants$1,100 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $321,281.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $99k to $198k (+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: 2021 38% · 2022 47% · 2023 14% · 2024 16% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of PROJECT MUSIC INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Joyce Dicamillo
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $2k → $102k.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PROJECT MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 36% · 2019 63% · 2020 63% · 2021 37% · 2022 28% · 2023 46% — 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
75% of PROJECT MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
53% of PROJECT MUSIC 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. Of the $364k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $416k 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.
Against its field
PROJECT MUSIC INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PROJECT MUSIC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $385k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$350k
- State Aid Grants$35k
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 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PROJECT MUSIC 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 INC?
- PROJECT MUSIC INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $780,227 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($250,166). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $780,227 in grants to PROJECT MUSIC INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT MUSIC INC?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT MUSIC 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.
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 26 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