Massachusetts · Nonprofit
TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC
TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,513 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($122,040). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $429k
- Net assets
- $92k
What Tunefoolery Music Inc does
Mission
Tunefoolery is an arts & human services nonprofit that empowers, educates, and employs musicians in mental health recovery, who perform over 600 live music events a year at community partner sites and for the public.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Tunefoolery brought live music to mental health and community-based programs throughout the Greater Boston area, including hospitals, shelters, nursing homes, and other community settings. During the year, 19 Tunefoolery musicians participated in 658 performance engagements, some involving multiple musicians, reaching audiences totaling approximately 10,000 people. Tunefoolery also provided music education and support services to its musicians, including approximately 90 individual music lessons for 11 musicians, weekly one-on-one goals coaching sessions, and approximately weekly check-in and musician support groups. Tunefoolery held 52 online and 9 in-person open mics, free and open to the public, reaching more than 500 people.
$114,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $114,000.
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 2019 to 2020, from $63k to $125k (+98%).
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: 2020 80% · 2021 93% · 2022 82% · 2023 85% · 2024 27% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC’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. 4 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Linda Chin
Chair/Creative Director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $38k → $55k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC 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
TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 60% · 2019 27% · 2020 32% · 2021 49% · 2022 39% · 2023 42% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
65% of TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC 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 $151k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $278k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC's revenue grew 59% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $73k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$67k
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$7k
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 TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC?
- TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,513 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($122,040). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $428,513 in grants to TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $122,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 13 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