California · Nonprofit
SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY
SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,702 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $170k
What South Indian Music Academy does
Mission
Our mission is to deliver high-quality Carnatic music concerts by renowned artists to the LA/Orange County area. We aim to inspire our community, educate music students, and preserve the legacy of this beautiful art form. We also maintain a healthy cash balance to support and organize more community events, as well as upgrade equipment and accessories. For more information, please visit simala.net.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
South Indian Music Academy is dedicated to promoting and nurturing Carnatic music within the Southern California community. The Academy presents high-quality Carnatic music concerts across the Los Angeles and Orange County regions. It features accomplished and renowned artists who inspire and engage audiences of all ages. The organization is committed to preserving and promoting the rich legacy of Carnatic music for future generations. It keeps the tradition vibrant and thriving by ensuring access to world-class live performances in Southern California. The Academy also supports music education by providing platforms for students to showcase their learning through festivals and performances.
$136,821 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $136,821.
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.
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 $135k to $156k (+16%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY’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
SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY.
“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
100% of SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k 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.
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Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY: 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 SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY?
- SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,702 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $33,702 in grants to SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH INDIAN MUSIC ACADEMY 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 2 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