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THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC

THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,419 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ($136,491). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$339k
Net assets
$2.1M
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What The Music Academy of North Carolina Inc does

Mission

To provide individualized music instructions to students regardless of race, ethnic, or economic background

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The academy provides students with individualized music programs which provide opportunities for development of talent and growth of musical knowledge and skills.

    $573,201 spent$729,589 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $573,201.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($889k) Expenses 100 ($867k) Net assets 100 ($450k)2018 Revenue 84 ($743k) Expenses 82 ($708k) Net assets 108 ($485k)2019 Revenue 71 ($629k) Expenses 76 ($660k) Net assets 101 ($454k)2020 Revenue 75 ($667k) Expenses 78 ($679k) Net assets 98 ($439k)2021 Revenue 85 ($760k) Expenses 75 ($653k) Net assets 121 ($546k)2022 Revenue 72 ($638k) Expenses 79 ($681k) Net assets 112 ($503k)2023 Revenue 117 ($1.0M) Expenses 86 ($745k) Net assets 177 ($795k)2024 Revenue 212 ($1.9M) Expenses 93 ($806k) Net assets 417 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 118 ($1.1M) Expenses 102 ($885k) Net assets 460 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (102)Net assets (460)Peer revenue range

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 $881k to $2.0M (+124%).

$598k
$596k
$583k
$560k
$627k
$582k
$881k
$2.0M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

24% of THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’17
$35k
’18
−$31k
’19
−$12k
’20
$107k
’21
−$43k
’22
$292k
’23
$1.1M
’24
$167k
’25
7.6
months of
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

John Locke

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141512121111111213
Joined·+7+2+5+1+0+2+3+3
No longer listed·65520222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $49k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC’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 MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC.

40%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 58% · 2020 39% · 2021 56% · 2022 53% · 2023 61% — 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

50% of THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

92% of THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

PA
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve7.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA 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 North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 33%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC?
THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,419 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ($136,491). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $339,419 in grants to THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC?
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC is the largest funder on record, with $136,491 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC find more funders?
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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 8 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