California · Nonprofit
VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS
VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,003 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,003). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Vaquero Instrumental Music Boosters does
Mission
To provide support for the ihs music student program
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Purchased sheet music, musical instruments, and supplies for the irvine high school instrumental music program and color guard
$68,751 spent42% of program spendingProvided music coaching to the irvine high school students involved in both the instrumental music program and the color guard
$57,572 spent35% of program spendingProvided uniforms and costumes to the students of both the irvine vaqueros marching band and color guard
$10,556 spent6% of program spendingOther Program Services
$27,989 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $164,868.
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 2024 to 2025, from $129k to $78k (−39%).
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.
53% of VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Charlene Dohanh
President (CEO)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $185 → $261.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS
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 California
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS: 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 VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS?
- VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,003 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,003). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,003 in grants to VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,003 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VAQUERO INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC BOOSTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 1 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