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TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC

TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,275 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($34,075). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$67k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$63k
Net assets
$114k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Tri-County Music Association Inc does

Mission

Sponsor musical band performances & award scholarships.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Annual concert program included five performances.area residents attended these programs.seven musical scholarships were awarded along with six summer study grants.

    $35,399 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,399.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($45k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($93k)2018 Revenue 96 ($43k) Expenses 102 ($53k) Net assets 89 ($83k)2019 Revenue 106 ($47k) Expenses 97 ($50k) Net assets 86 ($81k)2020 Revenue 107 ($48k) Expenses 82 ($42k) Net assets 92 ($86k)2025 Revenue 151 ($67k) Expenses 98 ($51k) Net assets 122 ($114k)
20172018201920202025
Revenue (151)Expenses (98)Net assets (122)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $93k to $83k (−11%).

$93k
$83k
$81k
$86k
$114k
20172018201920202025
Total assets

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
−$10k
’18
−$3k
’19
$6k
’20
$16k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $13k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION 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

TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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

54% 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 TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC.

54%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 96% · 2020 52% · 2021 49% · 2022 96% · 2023 54% — 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

54% of TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $29k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k 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

Government funding TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.

State$3k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC?
TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,275 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($34,075). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $63,275 in grants to TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $34,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRI-COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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