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UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC

UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,073 to it, the largest being GERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC ($237,850). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$193k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$528k
Net assets
$22k
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 80%
01What it does

What Union City Music Project Inc does

Mission

UCMP (alternately called "United Children's Music Project") creates a better life for underserved children and youth through affordable music education. We envision a world where kids reach their full potential by developing academic and life skills through increased access to low-cost, high-quality musical training and arts. UCMP's After School Orchestral Music Programs transform Hudson County, NJ's 3-to-18-year-olds through free instruments, affordable instruction, and performances.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Founded in 2012, ucmp is nj's first el sistema-inspired after school orchestral music education program. Now in its 11th year, ucmp has served over 800 underservedpre-k-to-12th graders from hudson county's urban communities throughlow-cost music instruction and free instruments. Beginning with "paper orchestra" music immersion, students then are trained in strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion six hours/week, ten months/year by professional musicians. Ucmp's after school program is enhanced by arts electives, summer day camp, field trips, parent workshops, visiting artists, student mentors, and regular area performances of ucmps children's and youth orchestras and chorus.

    $189,215 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $189,215.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($122k) Expenses 100 ($145k) Net assets 100 ($27k)2018 Revenue 122 ($149k) Expenses 99 ($143k) Net assets 139 ($37k)2019 Revenue 164 ($199k) Expenses 109 ($159k) Net assets 243 ($65k)2020 Revenue 147 ($179k) Expenses 117 ($169k) Net assets 263 ($70k)2021 Revenue 138 ($168k) Expenses 136 ($198k) Net assets 220 ($58k)2022 Revenue 159 ($193k) Expenses 176 ($256k) Net assets -14 ($-3837)2023 Revenue 135 ($164k) Expenses 143 ($208k) Net assets -183 ($-48663)2024 Revenue 158 ($193k) Expenses 130 ($189k) Net assets 84 ($22k)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (130)Net assets (84)Peer revenue range

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 $58k to $0 (−100%).

$27k
$37k
$65k
$70k
$58k
$0
$944
$32k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

71% of UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$24k
’17
$5k
’18
$40k
’19
$10k
’20
−$30k
’21
−$62k
’22
−$45k
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$3k
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3.1
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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.

20172018
Listed66
Joined·+2
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $61k.

4 of 15 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 UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT 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

UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 78% · 2019 62% · 2020 57% · 2021 48% · 2022 55% · 2023 41% — 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

56% of UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

69% of UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

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

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48k on record — $35k federal, $13k state.

Federal$35k
grants $35kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$35k
State$13k
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Top programs
  • GRANT IN AID$10k
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$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

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC?
UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,073 to it, the largest being GERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC ($237,850). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $528,073 in grants to UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC?
GERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $237,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNION CITY MUSIC PROJECT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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