North Carolina · Nonprofit
TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC
TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,527 to it, the largest being The Landfall Foundation Inc ($7,219). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Topsail High School Music Boosters Inc does
Mission
Support student music ensembles
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The boosters supported marching performances with funds to pay instructors, purchase uniforms, provide transportation,and support the students.
$66,672 spent62% of program spendingThe boosters supported the concert band by helping purchase music, equipment, and assisting with repairs and maintenance.
$27,859 spent26% of program spendingThe boosters supported winter guard by assisting with the costs of uniforms, equipment, and instruction.
$6,974 spent7% of program spendingOther program services
$5,526 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $107,031.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $62k to $91k (+47%).
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.
77% of TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $606.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS 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
TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 90% · 2022 88% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
83% of TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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.
Against its field
TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS 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
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC?
- TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,527 to it, the largest being The Landfall Foundation Inc ($7,219). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,527 in grants to TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC?
- The Landfall Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $7,219 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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