Virginia · Nonprofit
THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC
THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,364,544 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,885,950). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What The Academy of Music does
Mission
To bring the joys and benefits of learning music to the residents of hampton roads regardless of ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction: the academy provides individual instruction to children and adults through one-on-one lessons, mostly using space in local churches. In the last school year, our faculty taught some 7,500 hours of private lessons. 3,000 hours (or about 40%) were provided free of charge, as we awarded over 175,000 in scholarships, shared between one in every three students having private lessons.
$582,035 spent86% of program spendingOutreach: our outreach programs are funded by grants and donations and reach groups in our community that could not otherwise hope to enjoy high-level music instruction. Our two major outreach programs this year, we had our "haprs on fire" program in partnership with norfolk public schools, and our after-school piano program at impact church in chesapeake, reaching a total of 50 students.
$94,755 spent14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $676,790.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $1.8M (+32%).
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: 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $196k → $290k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC’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
THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 64% · 2019 81% · 2020 80% · 2021 83% · 2022 85% · 2023 85% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
86% of THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC'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. Of the $336k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$2k
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.
Organizations like THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC: 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 THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC?
- THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,364,544 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,885,950). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,364,544 in grants to THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC?
- HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,885,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 13 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