Missouri · Nonprofit
UNCHAINED MELODIES INC
UNCHAINED MELODIES INC (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,498 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($40,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
UNCHAINED MELODIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,307 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,307 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalsshared fundersportfolio match
- The Grey Muzzle Organizationshared fundersportfolio match
- Bruce G Geary Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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.
80% of UNCHAINED MELODIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 UNCHAINED MELODIES 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
UNCHAINED MELODIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 UNCHAINED MELODIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 2023 64% — 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
63% of UNCHAINED MELODIES 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 $34k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalsshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 118 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Grey Muzzle Organizationshared fundersportfolio matchNC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bruce G Geary Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Good Charitiesshared fundersportfolio matchWA · backs 98 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Boone Electric Community TrustlocalMO · funds 76 organizations near you
- Ethel Frends Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kurgo Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lacey Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Muttnation Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Crystal Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like UNCHAINED MELODIES INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNCHAINED MELODIES INC: 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 UNCHAINED MELODIES INC?
- UNCHAINED MELODIES INC (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,498 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($40,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNCHAINED MELODIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $91,498 in grants to UNCHAINED MELODIES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNCHAINED MELODIES INC?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $40,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNCHAINED MELODIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing