Arkansas · Nonprofit
The House of Songs
The House of Songs (Arkansas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,937,781 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,301,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $301k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $-39185
What The House of Songs does
Mission
The corporation is organized for the following purposes: to bring musicians from all of the world together to create new works; to promote musical and artistic collaboration; to expand creative and cultural opportunities for the communities in which it operates; to work with cultural organizations in countries throughout the world; with similar goals; and to reduce cultural boundaries through music.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Artist in Residency Program - The House of Songs residency seeks to strengthen the ties that music naturally creates. By participating in a House of Songs residency, artists from around the world get an opportunity to live and work with peers in different genres with different backgrounds. Creating those organic connections is the heart and soul of the Houses mission.
$157,273 spent$19,424 earned by the program48% of program spendingSongwriter Summits - Several times per year, musicians from all our regions pair with international recording artists to live together for one week and collaborate on new music. After the summit, the artists travel to international songwriting festivals to network and showcase their new materials.
$157,273 spent$19,424 earned by the program48% of program spendingPublic Performances - The participants in the artist in residence programs and the songwriters summits play public performances of their newly written works. The performances are often held at other local cultural institutions such as museums and schools, in collaboration with other community organizations programming and directly by the organization.
$13,105 spent$1,620 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $327,651.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $330k to $53k (−84%).
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: 2021 12% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of The House of Songs’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Troy Campbell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $5k → $700k.
7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 House of Songs’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 House of Songs leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 87% · 2022 72% · 2023 55% — 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
25% of The House of Songs'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
98% of The House of Songs's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k 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 House of Songs's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The House of Songs
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 The House of Songs: 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 House of Songs?
- The House of Songs (Arkansas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,937,781 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($1,301,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The House of Songs have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,937,781 in grants to The House of Songs, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The House of Songs?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,301,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The House of Songs find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing