Ohio · Nonprofit
ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC
ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,084 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($215,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $335k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $593k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Roots of American Music does
Mission
The mission of Roots of American Music is to nourish neighborhoods with the transformative power of music through education and performance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Roots accomplished the following during 2025: 1.adult day partners 328 music enrichment performances 22 different facilities serving a total of 872 persons with physical and intellectual disabilities 2.senior centers/memory care 77 music enrichment performances 9 different facilities serving a total of 532 people 3.stop the hate provided in 16 schools across northeast oh served: 976 middle and high school students 4. Cleveland montessori spring 2025 - 28 students grades 1-3 18 visits spring 2025 - 15 students grades 4 & 518 visits fall 2025 - 30 students grades 1-3 6 visits fall 2025 - 18 students grades 4 & 58 visits 5.blues is the backbone provided for 36 classes in 10 schools in cleveland serving 805 students in grades k & 2 6.live performances with community partners 13 community partner sites 36 total performances serving 2,625 adults & children 7a.fatima - food for the soul 13 visits - 670 people served 2 concerts - 117 people served 7b.barton center - food for the soul 15 visits - 313 people served 1 concert - 22 people served 7c. Fatima - lunchtime concerts 30 performances - 1437 people served 7d.fatima - summer concerts 6 concerts - 311 people served 7e.dave's market 16…
$214,433 spent$91,385 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $214,433.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $118k to $75k (−36%).
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: 2023 17% · 2024 10% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC’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. 2 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $500 → $97k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC’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
ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 76% · 2020 49% · 2021 28% · 2022 36% · 2023 44% — 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
40% of ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC'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
52% of ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC'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 $284k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $309k 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
ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC
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
85%
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 ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC: 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 ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC?
- ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,084 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($215,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $593,084 in grants to ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $215,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 18 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