Texas · Nonprofit
REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION
REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,763 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($154,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $306k
- Net assets
- $1k
What Real Life Real Music Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Real Life Real Music Foundation is to build and promote the values taught by jesus christ in the secular world and media by providing life development resources and mentoring programs to musical artist and their communities, funding musical artistic endeavors, and providing musical education in local communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
At risk youth - songwriting with 501c3 angel reach in conroe, txprovided mentors, curriculum and in some cases, instruments as part of our at risk youth - songwriter programming. These consisted of single day group workshops, individual zoom and in-person writing sessions, instrument lessons, and sessions in professional recording studios. These efforts enabled at risk youth to participate with industry professionals and engage in high-end musical education oportunities.
$51,170 spent100% of program spendingSummer songwriting camp - at 501c3 the settlement home, austin txour mentors spent a week in austin working with youth under cps care, writing, recording and performing their own original songs. Our team brought a mobile recording system into the transitional living facility to give attendees the opportunity to gain studio and performance experience
Donations to musical non-profitsin addition to our programming work with non-profit youth we were able to make donations to other non-profits including 501c3 a chance to rock in austin, tx.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $51,170.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $47k to $198k (+325%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $67k → $8k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION’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
REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 80%; 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 REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 56% · 2019 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
73% of REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION'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 $83k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $223k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION: 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 REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION?
- REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $305,763 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($154,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $305,763 in grants to REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $154,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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