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SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC

SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,175 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$147k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$33k
Net assets
$2.6M
2/7 repeat funders
01What it does

What Shelter Island Friends of Music Inc does

Mission

Offer world class musical concerts for free to east end of long island residents

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Nine times each year the shelter island friends of music contracts with and pays for classical concerts at a shelter island church and one concert at a public school. Nine other community outreach events are also provided thoughout the year.

    $147,516 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $147,516.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($9k) Expenses 100 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2024 Revenue 1237 ($113k) Expenses 654 ($97k) Net assets 11550 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 1613 ($147k) Expenses 1161 ($172k) Net assets 12502 ($2.6M)
202220242025
Revenue (1613)Expenses (1161)Net assets (12502)

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 $2.4M to $2.6M (+8%).

$20k
$2.4M
$2.6M
202220242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’22
$16k
’24
−$25k
’25
3.2
months of
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.

20242025
Listed1112
Joined·+1
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25 → $1k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF 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

SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

62% 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 SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC.

62%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 95% — 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

62% of SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF 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 $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’20
’21
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 12%Fundraising 2%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

56%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC?
SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC (New York) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,175 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $33,175 in grants to SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2022–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing