Florida · Nonprofit
SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $334,450 to it, the largest being LAT FOUNDATION ($270,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $102k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $334k
- Net assets
- $406k
What Sanibel Music Festival Inc does
Mission
Present music concerts to sanibel residents during march 2025 $52,000 was sponsored by patrons for 6 concerts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Free luminary concert performed for the community in december 2024this performance had about 175 attendees.donation from fred nordstrom for $1500.audience count for all attendees for the fiscal year was 1086 people.
$1,500 spentof which $1,500 as grants3% of program spendingDavid finkel and wu han performed, free, on 3/1/2025
$0 spent0% of program spendingJon nakamatsu performed on 3/4/2025, sponsored by sue pick, $10,000
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants19% of program spendingChopin-william yang concert sponsored by pat thurber for $10,000.otc concert on 3/18/25 $3500,isidor string quartet sponsored david conrad and linda & doug garde $8500. No sponsor for concert for $20,000, paid by sanibel music festival
$41,000 spentof which $41,000 as grants78% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,500.
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 $292k to $462k (+58%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC’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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $200k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL 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
SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 60% · 2019 66% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 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
SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
- SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $334,450 to it, the largest being LAT FOUNDATION ($270,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $334,450 in grants to SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
- LAT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $270,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 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