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ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER

ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,115 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($282,921). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$7.6M
26/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What St Cecilia Music Center does

Mission

St. Cecilia music center seeks to promote the appreciation, study, and performance of music in order to enrich the human spirit and enhance the quality of life for the residents of west michigan.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Musical education programs for children and adults serving 839 students with approximately 22,000 hours of instruction. Includes strings to schools, youth orchestra, beer city winds, grand stings, band camp and piano camps and school assembly programs.

    $209,779 spentof which $6,594 as grants$119,817 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  2. World class musical performances through the chamber, jazz, and folk series.

    $606,782 spent$381,557 earned by the program
    45% of program spending
  3. Maintaining and offering the community the historical building that houses st. Cecilia music center.

    $536,367 spent
    40% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,352,928.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($6.2M)2019 Revenue 125 ($1.4M) Expenses 104 ($1.4M) Net assets 102 ($6.3M)2020 Revenue 115 ($1.3M) Expenses 103 ($1.4M) Net assets 101 ($6.3M)2021 Revenue 76 ($874k) Expenses 68 ($914k) Net assets 108 ($6.7M)2022 Revenue 182 ($2.1M) Expenses 106 ($1.4M) Net assets 112 ($6.9M)2023 Revenue 109 ($1.3M) Expenses 113 ($1.5M) Net assets 112 ($6.9M)2024 Revenue 143 ($1.7M) Expenses 117 ($1.6M) Net assets 120 ($7.4M)2025 Revenue 138 ($1.6M) Expenses 127 ($1.7M) Net assets 124 ($7.6M)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (127)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

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 $7.1M to $7.6M (+6%).

$6.3M
$6.4M
$6.5M
$6.8M
$7.1M
$7.1M
$7.6M
$7.9M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 22% · 2022 15% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

47% of ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$182k
’18
$52k
’19
−$45k
’20
−$40k
’21
$681k
’22
−$253k
’23
$86k
’24
−$106k
’25
7.9
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.

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Listed2424232117232323
Joined·+5+1+0+0+8+1+3
No longer listed·5224213
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $92k → $193k.

10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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

ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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

32% 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 ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER.

18%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 41% · 2019 33% · 2020 17% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 26% — 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

54% of ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

84% of ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MT
MN
MI
NY
OH
CT
FL

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

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’19
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’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $492k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · below the median
Months of reserve7.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.

Federal$40k
grants $40kcontracts $0
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25
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$40k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 9%Fundraising 12%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MN
MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER?
ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,115 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($282,921). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,548,115 in grants to ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER?
GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $282,921 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 39 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