Ohio · Nonprofit
TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION
TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,724,226 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($469,250). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $798k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Tuesday Musical Association does
Mission
Tuesday musical enriches the cultural life of greater akron and northeast ohio by connecting today's exceptional performers with audiences, students, and members in powerful ways and by advancing the positive power of music in our community. This is achieved through distinctive, appealing, and accessible performances; dynamic collaborations with our community; meaningful education programs; and an engaged membership that pays tribute to our legacy as a grassroots organization created by and for music lovers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Tuesday Musical Association advances the transformative power of music through performance, education, and engagement. Founded in 1887, tuesday musical is one of ohio's oldest and most respected arts organizations. We present internationally acclaimed artists in accessible, high-quality concerts that enrich the cultural life of greater akron and northeast ohio. Our programs extend far beyond the stage, including robust education initiatives that serve students of all ages, annual scholarship competitions that support emerging musicians, and community collaborations that foster inclusion, diversity, healing, and lifelong appreciation of the arts. Through these efforts, tuesday musical preserves artistic excellence while promoting cultural understanding on a local and global scale. We remain rooted in our grassroots legacy created by and for music lovers and committed to ensuring that the arts remain a vibrant, unifying force in our region and beyond.
$400,102 spentof which $41,250 as grants$170,517 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $400,102.
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 $3.4M to $4.7M (+36%).
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: 2022 20% · 2024 3% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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
Cynthia Snider
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $144k → $246k.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION’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
TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 37% · 2019 27% · 2020 29% · 2021 46% · 2022 25% · 2023 23% — 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
67% of TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
55% of TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION'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 $774k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $950k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION?
- TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,724,226 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($469,250). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,724,226 in grants to TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION?
- AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $469,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TUESDAY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing