Washington · Nonprofit
Ted Brown Music Outreach
Ted Brown Music Outreach (Washington) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,985 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($28,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $314k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Ted Brown Music Outreach does
Mission
We exist to support musical activities and programs, including the provision of musical instruments, and music therapy to enhance the lives of all those in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Music Therapy: Individual and Group Sessions. Services provided on site and at clients location. Live it Outloud: 8 week summer rock school. Give kids a chance to learn to play woodwind, brass, string and percussion instruments. Instrument Donations: Instruments are donated and repaired and then given to students that cannot afford to purchase or rent their own instruments.
$274,106 spent$100,047 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $274,106.
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 $24k to $65k (+175%).
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: 2023 16% · 2024 10% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of Ted Brown Music Outreach’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. 5 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
Christopher Uebelhor
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $13k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Ted Brown Music Outreach’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
Ted Brown Music Outreach has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
33% 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 Ted Brown Music Outreach.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 38% · 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 33% · 2023 46% — 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
14% of Ted Brown Music Outreach's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 Ted Brown Music Outreach's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Ted Brown Music Outreach has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Ted Brown Music Outreach
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ted Brown Music Building LLC · partnership
- Ted Brown Music Company Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ted Brown Music Outreach: 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 Ted Brown Music Outreach?
- Ted Brown Music Outreach (Washington) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,985 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($28,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ted Brown Music Outreach have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $134,985 in grants to Ted Brown Music Outreach, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ted Brown Music Outreach?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $28,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ted Brown Music Outreach find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing