California · Nonprofit
REDTONE RECORDS
REDTONE RECORDS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,146,700 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($955,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $593k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $123k
What Redtone Records does
Mission
Redtone Records is as a nonprofit, community-based record label and recording studio that provides free, professional music and video production to cultural artists with positive messages. We have a specific focus on preserving and promoting various forms of traditional and roots music from around the world. Additionally we will be conducting regular youth songwriting competitions, incentivizing positive lyrical content from young, aspiring, community artists. Our activities include: identifying and recruiting artists, both locally and internationally; subsidizing travel and lodging expenses for artist residencies when applicable; operating a community-based recording studio; producing music and video; hosting and promoting concerts, festivals and similar activities; pursuing song placements in tv, film, advertising, etc.; marketing and promotion of redtone artists; submitting redtone productions to major artists for possible program revenue to fund redtone activities. Redtone's missio
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
2024 was mostly a year of sustaining ongoing support for the artists weve been working with the past few years. We produced tiffanis second redtone album while also sponsoring and co-producing a life-sustaining practices fellowship she created. Part of this fellowship included the creation of a podcast, recorded in our studio, focused on black health and wellness and featuring redtone music. We released effie zilchs 4th album, multitudes, a celebration of the sounds and spirit of a rich bay area musical legacy going back to san franciscos golden age of the counterculture movement. We released kiazi malongas second album, zu dia ngoma, with some singles having already been released in late 2023. Over this same period of time, kiazi and his musical mentor traveled extensively throughout congo- brazzaville, finding singers and musicians often in more remote communities and bringing them into the city to record their traditional music. Kiazi brought these recordings to our studio where we began organizing and mixing the recordings to produce a full album that will present a wide range of traditional musical styles from various congolese ethnic and language groups. Miko marks saw…
$332,764 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $332,764.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $53k to $145k (+173%).
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.
71% of REDTONE RECORDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $160k → $175k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 REDTONE RECORDS’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
REDTONE RECORDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 REDTONE RECORDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2021 96% · 2022 66% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of REDTONE RECORDS'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.
Against its field
REDTONE RECORDS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like REDTONE RECORDS
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
87% 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 REDTONE RECORDS: 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 REDTONE RECORDS?
- REDTONE RECORDS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,146,700 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($955,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REDTONE RECORDS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,146,700 in grants to REDTONE RECORDS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REDTONE RECORDS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $955,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REDTONE RECORDS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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