Illinois · Nonprofit
THE MIDWEST CLINIC
THE MIDWEST CLINIC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($120,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What The Midwest Clinic does
Mission
The Midwest Clinic exists to raise the standards of music education. We serve this mission by: (1) improving the methods employed in music education; (2) developing new teaching techniques; (3) analyzing and appraising literature concerning music education; (4) holding clinics, lectures and demonstrations for the betterment of music education; and (5) generally assisting music teachers in the pursuit of excellence in their profession.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Two new pre-conference intensives were added. In addition to the string & percussion pre-conference intensives, new intensives were added for jazz and pro audio. All intensives took place on the tuesday afternoon preceding the start of The Midwest Clinic on wednesday, december 17th, 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The primary vehicle for accomplishing the organization's mission is the premier scholastic music event in north america, The Midwest Clinic ("the clinic"). The four-day annual event includes dozens of live performances by scholastic groups, military bands and other professional ensembles and lectures by prominent music educators. The clinic attracts over 17,000 music educators and music education students representing all 50 states and over 30 countries. The competition to be chosen to be a clinician or performing group is intense. Making the cut at the clinic is deemed to be a career milestone by most everyone in our industry. The organization has directors who each devote not less 20 hours each year in committees listening to recordings of ensembles, discussing the performances and choosing groups to be invited to the clinic. The competition to perform at the clinic is intense. The organization receives 10-15 submissions for each group invited. The adjudication sessions are conducted in chicago in march of each year. Directors whose groups make the cut are invited to chicago in june to meet the board, tour the venue and receive guidance about the event. Part of the…
$2,098,299 spentof which $2,000 as grants$2,217,488 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,098,299.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.0M to $1.3M (−36%).
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.
7% of THE MIDWEST CLINIC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
Kelly Bell
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE MIDWEST CLINIC’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.
Where its funders are
THE MIDWEST CLINIC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 MIDWEST CLINIC's revenue grew 38% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE MIDWEST CLINIC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $152k on record — $151k federal, $2k state.
- Department of Defense$141k
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- OK$1k
- DE$230
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 MIDWEST CLINIC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 1 related entity
- The Midwest Clinic Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MIDWEST CLINIC: 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 MIDWEST CLINIC?
- THE MIDWEST CLINIC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $120,000 to it, the largest being NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ($120,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MIDWEST CLINIC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $120,000 in grants to THE MIDWEST CLINIC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MIDWEST CLINIC?
- NCRC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MIDWEST CLINIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 1 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