Tennessee · Nonprofit
TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS
TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $13k
What Technology Institute for Music Educators does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to assist music educators in applying technology to improve teaching and learning in music.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Development and implement course materials for music technology which is disseminated through website, books, brochures, and newletters, supporting hundreds of teachers; all members can access lesson plans.
$56,471 spent55% of program spendingConferences and meetings are held to disseminate information in the use of technology to improve teaching and learning music. Conference and meeting attendance can range between 25-400 people. Last year over 6,000 music teachers attended in-service training sessions at our events nationwide.
$45,440 spent45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $101,911.
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 2019 to 2020, from $8k to $33k (+336%).
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.
54% of TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Michael Lawson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Against its field
TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS
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 Tennessee
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS: 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 TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS?
- TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS?
- GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR MUSIC EDUCATORS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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