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TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS

TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,481 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($1,525). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$96k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$95k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Timberwolves Instrumental Music Boosters does

Mission

To promote and enhance the musical education and performance of northwood high school students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Music, supplies, instruments and the opportunity to learn and perform were provided to more than 510 high school instrumental music students.

    $136,060 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $136,060.

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 ($113k) Expenses 100 ($127k) Net assets 100 ($212k)2018 Revenue 88 ($99k) Expenses 102 ($130k) Net assets 85 ($181k)2019 Revenue 139 ($157k) Expenses 126 ($160k) Net assets 84 ($178k)2021 Revenue 38 ($43k) Expenses 12 ($16k) Net assets 83 ($175k)2022 Revenue 55 ($62k) Expenses 68 ($87k) Net assets 71 ($150k)2023 Revenue 72 ($82k) Expenses 81 ($103k) Net assets 61 ($129k)2024 Revenue 134 ($151k) Expenses 107 ($136k) Net assets 68 ($144k)2025 Revenue 85 ($96k) Expenses 114 ($146k) Net assets 45 ($95k)
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Revenue (85)Expenses (114)Net assets (45)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 2024 to 2025, from $144k to $95k (−34%).

$212k
$181k
$178k
$175k
$165k
$140k
$144k
$95k
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’17
−$31k
’18
−$3k
’19
$27k
’21
−$25k
’22
−$21k
’23
$15k
’24
−$50k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $117 → $690.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS’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

TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

61%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 2022 75% · 2023 87% — 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.

Where its funders are

TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

NJ
CA

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

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $456 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−52% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS?
TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,481 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($1,525). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,481 in grants to TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS?
VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TIMBERWOLVES INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4 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