California · Nonprofit
REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION
REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,038 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($151,500). 6 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
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $344k
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Redlands Community Music Association does
Mission
Provide world class performing arts for the community without admission charge
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Redlands Community Music Association dba redlands bowl performing arts (rbpa) was founded in 1923 by grace stewart mullen for the purpose of providing world-class performing arts programs to the community free of admission charge. The mission of the rbpa is "music for everyone." its core program is the redlands bowl summer music festival, which is the nation's oldest, continuously running music festival where no admission is charged serving over 100,000 people each year. The multi-disciplinary festival features symphony orchestras, opera, a community musical, jazz, big band and a variety of culturally rich music and dance performances on tuesday and friday evenings, with selected performances on other days. The rbpa also presents the young artist auditions, a scholarship competition for young aspiring classical musicians.
$1,126,917 spent$55,839 earned by the program91% of program spendingEighty-eight keys for youth. As part of the rbpa's musical mission, it presents robust youth music education programs serving youth in our region with performing arts opportunities at no cost. Each year over 35,000 youth are exposed to life-changing arts programs and performances. Over 60% of participants are low-income and underserved. Program delivery is via the music in the schools program featuring music assemblies to elementary students. In addition, arts impact initiative music enrichment programs provide the artistic component to the curriculums of partnering organizations such as boys and girls clubs, micah house kids, the redlands community center, rochford foundation, mansion memories, and others. Children's festival workshops are presented by bowl stage artists throughout the summer months for children ages 4-12 and accompanying family members. In addition, day-long musical theater camps are carried out in coordination with the north redlands community center's lunch program underserved youth.
$108,558 spent9% of program spendingThe young artists concerto competition is a scholarship program which provides monetary scholarships to young aspiring classical musicians. Artists compete for the opportunity to perform with orchestra on the redlands bowl stage for the grand finals. Finalists receive monetary scholarships, and one grand finalist is announced through an adjudication process.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,235,475.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $3.2M to $5.9M (+87%).
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: 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Beverly Noerr
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $6k → $43k.
5 of 9 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Associates of the Redlands Bowl Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION’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
REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 81% · 2020 75% · 2021 68% · 2022 61% · 2023 63% — 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
33% of REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
87% of REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION'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 $46k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $298k 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
REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $73k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$73k
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 REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Associates of the Redlands Bowl Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION?
- REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $344,038 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($151,500). 6 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 REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $344,038 in grants to REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $151,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REDLANDS COMMUNITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing