Ohio · Nonprofit
Renovare Music Inc
Renovare Music Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,680 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($58,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $363k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $258k
What Renovare Music Inc does
Mission
Sharing music at the highest level of artistry in diverse settings and innovative programs to love our neighbor affirm the value of all people and cultivate reconciled communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Performances and worship events: Renovare shares music stories and leads worship in a wide variety of venues. About 75% of our performances take place in marginalized spaces ex. prisons homeless shelters hospitals. The remainder of our performances occur in venues ranging from concert halls to community gardens with an emphasis on connecting communities that are siloed from one another. Renovares fresh creative voice spans artistic genres and invites audiences everywhere into meaningful connection through interactive musical experiences. Renovares focus is on our Northeast Ohio community which is where almost all of the 83 concerts and worship events we performed in 2025 took place. Over 5,000 attendees experienced these events last year where they were offered a taste of the restorative and transformative love of God through the unique and powerful mediums of music and relationship.
$76,525 spent$10,573 earned by the program40% of program spendingStrings classes in prisons: Renovare teaches violin viola and cello to residents at two Northeast Ohio prisons. These weekly classes provide an opportunity for participants to learn together build community exercise discipline develop confidence in performing for others and grow in self-esteem and self-expression. Participants also develop music literacy and technical skill in playing their instruments which are provided by Renovare but kept in the care of the inmates for the duration of their participation to allow them to practice daily. Renovare continued teaching Unmuted and Music for the Soul our weekly classes for men at the Grafton Correctional Institution and for women at the Northeast Reintegration Center respectively throughout 2025. Between the two programs Renovare led 104 classes in 2025 with a total of 40 participants. Both programs performed multiple times for other inmates at their prisons as well as for family and outside guests.
$68,866 spent36% of program spendingCreation of original Documentary Songs: Documentary Songwriting is a method of co-writing music that fosters empathy boosts self-confidence and strengthens community. It demystifies creativity and allows someone with no musical background to express themselves through high-quality songs docsong. org. This method was developed over a decade ago by composer Malcolm Brooks PhD. His work can be heard on PBS Nova and the History Channel and has garnered two Emmy nominations and a Peabody Award. Renovare undertakes Documentary Songwriting projects with people whose perspectives have often been marginalized or gone unheard. We believe that all people are worthy of dignity and respect and that in order to better love our neighbors we must listen well to them. We then invite the broader community to listen well with us sharing these songs in thoughtfully curated concerts to increase understanding and inspire action. In 2025 Renovare wrote 8 Documentary Songs with 7 community members many of whom testified to the healing and empowerment that took place for them through the songwriting process.
$44,236 spent23% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,627.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $155k to $258k (+67%).
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 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of Renovare Music Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Rebecca Shasberger
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $45k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 Renovare 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
Renovare Music Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 Renovare Music Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 39% · 2023 53% — 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
67% of Renovare 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 $50k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Renovare Music Inc runs a healthier operating margin 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
Organizations like Renovare 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Renovare 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 Renovare Music Inc?
- Renovare Music Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,680 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($58,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Renovare Music Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $149,680 in grants to Renovare Music Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Renovare Music Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Renovare Music Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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