California · Nonprofit
The Crowden Music Center
The Crowden Music Center (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,794,236 to it, the largest being ANN & GORDON GETTY FOUNDATION ($5,035,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What The Crowden Music Center does
Mission
Where Students come to receive a world class education with music at its core.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Crowden School is an independent day school dedicated to music and academic education of children in grades 3 to 8, focusing on string instruments, piano, and composition. The program serves approximately 55 students. The academic program is designed to help students achieve intellectual and emotional maturity through the development of analytical and critical thinking. The music program includes technique classes, music coaching, in small and large ensembles, and music history and theory. Curricula and school life are enriched by professional artists from all over the world.
$3,117,796 spentof which $664,953 as grants$1,630,858 earned by the program83% of program spendingCrowden provides the highest quality music education to the general public through its community education offerings. More than 1,400 community students of all ages and skill levels participate in Crowden's afterschool, weekend, and summer music lessons, classes, and ensembles. Students come from over 70 cities throughout the Greater Bay Area and beyond.
$630,519 spentof which $5,500 as grants$746,118 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,748,315.
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.
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 $3.4M to $14M (+303%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 22% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Ann Eastman
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $165k → $280k.
10 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Crowden Music Center’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 Crowden Music Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 40% · 2019 26% · 2020 95% · 2021 77% · 2022 39% · 2023 36% — 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
47% of The Crowden Music Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
99% of The Crowden Music Center's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $743k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like The Crowden Music Center
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% 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 Crowden Music Center: 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 Crowden Music Center?
- The Crowden Music Center (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,794,236 to it, the largest being ANN & GORDON GETTY FOUNDATION ($5,035,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Crowden Music Center have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $6,794,236 in grants to The Crowden Music Center, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Crowden Music Center?
- ANN & GORDON GETTY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,035,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Crowden Music Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 22 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