New York · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT
SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,999,654 to it, the largest being ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP ($5,730,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement does
Mission
The mission of third street music school settlement is to provide access to music and dance education to new yorkers of all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Music and dance instructionsee schedule oas the nation's longest-running community music school, third street provides high quality music and dance instruction to students of all ages, abilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The majority of third street's programs serve children in grades pre-k through 12th-grade with weekly after-school and weekend instruction in 25+ instruments and voice; group and ensemble classes; several dance disciplines; music theory, composition, and production; and performance training. Third street also offers early childhood programs including a licensed preschool and classes in music and movement; as well as adult programs such as flexible music lessons, free daytime access to practice studios, dance classes, and ensemble/performance activities, including new horizons bands for older adults. In 2024-25, third street served 6,000+ students, including 2,391 in our music & dance school's weekday, after school, and weekend programs, and 3,796 students in our public-school and community partnerships program. Third street's overall student population reflects the ethnic and socioeconomic diversity of nyc: 32% hispanic; 24% white; 21% asian; 11% black, and…
$8,235,364 spentof which $1,279,094 as grants$5,899,962 earned by the program82% of program spendingThird street partners, school & community partnerships see schedule oestablished over 60 years ago, third street partners is a school and community partnership program that reaches thousands of students in pre-k through 12th grade across the five boroughs. In 2024-25, third street partners served 3,616 students in 30 public schools and hundreds more through programs in five community centers serving students in public housing. Through these partnerships, third street provides teaching artist residencies in nyc public schools and community centers to provide students with skill-based, sequential instruction that ranges from music and movement, to african percussion, to group violin, and rock band. Committed to serving under-resourced populations, about 75% of students engaged in third street partners are living at or below the poverty line. For many of these students, third street's programs are their first exposure to arts education.at third street, we believe that music and dance are essential core subjects to a child's education. We offer schools a customizable arts education program that is sustainable and tailored to each unique group of students served. By working closely…
$1,408,084 spent$568,001 earned by the program14% of program spendingCommunity concertssee schedule oin 2024-25, third street presented over 150 free public performances, enriching the community through the shared language of the arts. Highlights included our livesounds concert series with performances by third street faculty, our cultural celebrations series which showcased artists from historically underrepresented backgrounds, and dozens of student performances including our annual all orchestras concert, stowe c. Phelps honors concert, nyc symphonic band concert, piano honors showcase, barbara e. Field chamber music concert, and string 'stravaganza. The year culminated in a special iso at third street concert at carnegie hall, a chamber music concert at kaufman music center, and a choir concert at symphony space.
$383,033 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,026,481.
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 $20M to $24M (+17%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 30% · 2024 7% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT’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. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Valerie Lewis
Executive director
Board chair
Peter Flint Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $753k → $1.5M.
15 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 75% · 2019 81% · 2020 32% · 2021 48% · 2022 30% · 2023 35% — 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 SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
82% of SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 35 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$160k
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 SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT?
- SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,999,654 to it, the largest being ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP ($5,730,000). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $11,999,654 in grants to SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT?
- ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION INC C/O JOEL E SAMMET & CO LLP is the largest funder on record, with $5,730,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT 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.
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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 65 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