California · Nonprofit
SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC
SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,470 to it, the largest being Meadowlark Service League ($12,320). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $221k
What Save Our Kids' Music does
Mission
To facilitate music education for the youth of Camarillo and to be "Instrumental in Student Success."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Pleasant Valley School District, Camarillo, CA - Instrument repair. Students served 511
$3,755 spent54% of program spendingPleasant Valley School District, Camarillo, CA - Group support expenses. Students served 4,071
$3,174 spent46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,929.
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 2023 to 2024, from $201k to $219k (+9%).
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.
92% of SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Karen Gatchel
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $147 → $6k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 SAVE OUR KIDS' 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
SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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 SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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
SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SAVE OUR KIDS' 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAVE OUR KIDS' 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 SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC?
- SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,470 to it, the largest being Meadowlark Service League ($12,320). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $24,470 in grants to SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC?
- Meadowlark Service League is the largest funder on record, with $12,320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVE OUR KIDS' MUSIC 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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