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THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC
THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC (New York) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,038,164 to it, the largest being ARTSWESTCHESTER INC ($390,795). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What The Music Conservatory of Westchester Inc does
Mission
The mission of music conservatory of westchester is to provide the extraordinary benefits of music to all in our community. We believe in the inherent power of music to provide personal enrichment, creative expression, lifelong learning, cultural appreciation, and joy for everyone.excellence: we strive to provide leadership and innovation in music education, encompassing high standards, best teaching practices and respect for individual differences. We seek to be a place where students of all ages and abilities grow through music and have the opportunity to develop their skills and talents to their greatest potential.access: guided by our commitment to inclusiveness, we believe that financial limitations or differing ability should never be a barrier to learning. We take our programs into the community as necessary to ensure this.community: we bring people together through musical collaboration, bridging differences, forging connections, and celebrating musical diversity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Music instructionthe music conservatory of westchester (mcw) is a nonprofit community music school founded in 1929 in the american settlement house tradition of community service and the european conservatory tradition of excellence. Legendary cellist pablo casals was among its founders, and jazz legend cab calloway once served on its board. Mcw's mission is to provide the extraordinary benefits of music to all in our community. Today, we serve 2,800 students of all ages, abilities and backgrounds: 800 who take lessons and classes in our white plains facility and 2000 who participate in outreach programs on collaboration with 30 community partners. Our white plains facility feature 39 teaching studios, recital hall, piano lab, technology lab, and a recording studio with large main studio and control room. The studio is networked to the recital hall, enabling recording and live-streaming of all performances.our music programs include one-on-one instrumental and vocal instruction, performing ensembles, theory, composition, music production, early childhood classes, summer programs and workshops, lifelong learning for adults, and free community performances. Instruction is provided…
$2,594,794 spentof which $175,744 as grants$1,818,556 earned by the program81% of program spendingOutreach programthe conservatory's music therapy institute (mti) was established in 1986 to expand our programs to include individuals with disabilities. Today the program serves 2,000 children and adults, providing individual and small-group music therapy onsite at the conservatory, and group music therapy on an outreach basis in partnership with 30 community partners, including public school districts, special education programs, medical facilities, senior care centers, and social service agencies. Services are provided by a faculty of 12 board-certified music therapists who hold undergraduate degrees in music and master's or doctoral degrees in music therapy. The conservatory building includes a dedicated music therapy unit with four session studios and an observation room fitted with one-way mirrors and head sets, enabling parents, caregivers and other therapy providers to observe sessions. Mti has received awards from arts westchester and from ascap (american society of composers, authors and publishers). In 2013, mti established healing our heroes, providing music therapy services for u.s. Military veterans dealing with war-related injuries, at no cost to them or their…
$532,630 spent$624,752 earned by the program17% of program spendingPerformancesperformance is an integral component of the conservatory's educational process, with student and faculty performances taking place at the conservatory and in the community. Students have opportunities to perform as soloists and in performing ensembles, in recitals taking place throughout the year. Faculty concerts offer an opportunity to hear high level professional performances in comfortable, familiar locations. All concerts are free and open to the public. The majority of student recitals take place in the conservatory's beautiful 150- seat recital hall, and are recorded from the control room of our recording studio. Two faculty ensembles the mcw faculty string quartet and the mcw faculty jazz ensemble along with additional faculty guest artists are performing in-person in our recital hall and live-streamed concerts from our recording studio. Community concerts also take place in local libraries, community centers, health care and senior care facilities, and other similar venues. Our students and faculty are also invited to perform at benefit events for other nonprofit organizations. Master classes are scheduled at the conservatory in which selected students are…
$62,048 spent$4,000 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,189,472.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.0M to $9.5M (+6%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 30% · 2023 10% · 2024 3% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC’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
Jean Newton
Executive director
Board chair
Rodd Berro
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $164k → $313k.
10 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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 MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 23% · 2019 25% · 2020 28% · 2021 32% · 2022 26% · 2023 24% — 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
41% of THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
71% of THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $577k 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.
Against its field
THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC?
- THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC (New York) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,038,164 to it, the largest being ARTSWESTCHESTER INC ($390,795). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $2,038,164 in grants to THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER INC?
- ARTSWESTCHESTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $390,795 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF WESTCHESTER 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.
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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 50 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