Michigan · Nonprofit
SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC
SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,700 to it, the largest being RAY & PEG HIRVONEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($31,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $101k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Superior String Alliance Inc does
Mission
Superior string alliance ssa supports the art of learning and performing music in the violin, viola, cello, and bass throughout michigans upper peninsula. Ssa provides music education for string students grades 4-12 through the ssa sumer music camps. Ssa also provides performance opportunities for the professional string musicians who are camp faculty members through ssa chamber players.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Music camps for the youth promoting musical and personal development.
$78,402 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,402.
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 2023 to 2024, from $49k to $64k (+31%).
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.
60% of SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE 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
SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 33% · 2018 38% · 2019 32% · 2020 56% · 2021 43% · 2022 32% · 2023 35% — broadly stable.
“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 SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE 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 Michigan
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC?
- SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,700 to it, the largest being RAY & PEG HIRVONEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($31,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $100,700 in grants to SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC?
- RAY & PEG HIRVONEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUPERIOR STRING ALLIANCE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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