Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE
UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,633 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($354,827). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $645k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $415k
- Net assets
- $580k
What Uptown Music Collective does
Mission
Providing exceptional music education and high impact musical experiences that instill a love of music, and an understanding of the importance of discipline, hard work, and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The umc program is the schools primary educational program. It provides a comprehensive modern music education for an average 130 students each semester and emphasizes the development of the whole student . The tuition for this program is the schools largest source of revenue. Students pay $525 per 15-week semester and for fifteen thirty minute lessons on their chosen instrument, and an additional three hours of group instruction, which includes a primary to college-level music theory curriculum, and a workshop series that teaches group performance skills. Enrolled students also have free access to additional school programs such as the performance program, ion uptown, and the tech monkey program.
$473,916 spent$515,755 earned by the program80% of program spendingThe Uptown Music Collectives performance program is the public face of the organization. The performance program is free to all enrolled students and is divided into three program areas. Student showcases, which are events all students can take part in. They take place three times a year, are open to the public, feature an average of 60 students performing for an audience of 200, and admission is free. The community performance program provides advanced students with the professional experience of performing at public and private events. It averages 60 performances per year, for an estimated audience of 5000 per year, and serves an average 25 participants. The major performance program gives advanced participants the opportunity to plan, direct, and present large-scale concerts in major perfomance venues. The school presents an average of 4 per year, serves 30-35 participants, and performs for an average of 5000 people each year.
$118,479 spent$128,939 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $592,395.
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 2022 to 2023, from $409k to $520k (+27%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $21k → $51k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE’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
UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 97% · 2019 99% · 2020 97% · 2021 83% · 2022 97% · 2023 83% — 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
89% of UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE'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 $44k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $371k 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
UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE: 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 UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE?
- UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,633 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($354,827). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $414,633 in grants to UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE?
- FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $354,827 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPTOWN MUSIC COLLECTIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 7 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