Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,661,965 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($3,766,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girlsshared funders
- Edwin Caplin Foundation 104786-000portfolio match
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% 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 broadened from 16 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.5M.
15 of 107 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 SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 funders by total. 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
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
29% 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 SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 33% · 2019 61% · 2020 46% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% — 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
52% of SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
61% of SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 107 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girlsshared fundersPA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Edwin Caplin Foundation 104786-000portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- The Patricia Kind Family Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 108 organizations that share your funders · funds 245 organizations near you
- The Forman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Independence Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 126 organizations that share your funders · funds 275 organizations near you
- The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalPA · backs 66 organizations that share your funders · funds 150 organizations near you
- The Gordon Charter Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 92 organizations that share your funders · funds 191 organizations near you
- The Allen Hilles Fundshared fundersPA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $275k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$275k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Sms Collaborative Management LLC · disregarded
- Settlement Music School Pre-K Scholarship Collaborative LLC · disregarded
- Camden School of Musical Arts · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA?
- SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,661,965 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($3,766,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $13,661,965 in grants to SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,766,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 107funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing