New York · Nonprofit
THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC
THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC (New York) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,480,222 to it, the largest being POPPLESTONE FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What The Harmony Program Inc does
Mission
The harmony program believes that music should be an integral part of every child's education and that great expectations lead to even greater achievement. Harmony was founded to provide students in under-served communities with free instruments, in-depth musical instruction, orchestral and choral training, and access to a variety of cultural programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The harmony program has developed a proprietary curriculum for 6 semesters of instruction on each of 8 orchestral instruments (including strings, winds, brass, and percussion), and a choral curriculum for students to learn vocal technique. Our curricula are based on the national association for music standards, as well as the nyc blueprint for teaching and learning in music. After-school instruction takes place 3 to 10 hours each week for 30 weeks during the school year (up to 300 hours annually). At the end of each semester, students are evaluated by teachers on their musical and social development. Musical evaluations are used to assess their progress on areas of technique, music theory, and musicianship, including body position, instrument hold, notation, tone quality, tempo/rhythm, vocal range, intonation and articulation. Teachers also evaluate their students' social development in the following areas: focus/prepration, cooperation, respect, communication, and self-esteem. Our breakdown of instructional activities is as follows: general music skills, group lessons, orchestral instruction, choral instruction, special events, and recitals.
$1,661,781 spentof which $13,218 as grants$438,964 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe harmony program understands that the summer months can be critically important to students' ability to retain, hone, and build upon the skills they learned during the school year. Our summer camp gives students the opportunity to practice and receive instruction during the summer, and the extended hours engage them in topics not included in our after-school program, including chamber playing, music theory, improvising, vocal work, and different music genres.
$319,746 spent16% of program spendingThe harmony program's unique model addresses a shortage of well-trained music teachers by recruiting accomplished musicians, trained at the nation's top conservatories and universities, to teach with us. The quality of our programming is directly related to the preparation of our teachers, who come with exceptional musical training but limited teaching experience. Our teachers receive up to 65 hours of training per year in preparation for their work with our students.
$56,998 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,038,525.
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 $1.9M to $4.2M (+116%).
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 49% · 2018 27% · 2019 39% · 2020 36% · 2021 10% · 2022 13% · 2023 11% · 2024 5% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Anne Fitzgibbon
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Kalmon Post
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $141k → $844k.
15 of 86 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 THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 funders by total. 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 HARMONY PROGRAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 44% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 31% — 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
46% of THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $798k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 HARMONY PROGRAM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $140k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$140k
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 HARMONY PROGRAM 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC: 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 HARMONY PROGRAM INC?
- THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC (New York) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,480,222 to it, the largest being POPPLESTONE FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $6,480,222 in grants to THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC?
- POPPLESTONE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 86 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