Washington · Nonprofit
Washington Music Educators Association
Washington Music Educators Association (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $606,986 to it, the largest being MUSIC AID NORTHWEST ($589,409). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $607k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Washington Music Educators Association does
Mission
To support music educators in an effort to ensure that every student in washington state has access to a comprehensive, sequential music education taught by a highly qualified instructor and certified teacher.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Biennial wmea state music conference and biennial nafme northwest music conference; includes music workshops, performances, and other activities. Yme (young musicians excelling) provides financial assistance to help students defray the cost of participating in wmea all-state and nafme all-northwest music student groups.these grants and the budgeted financial support available are determined by the executive director based on financial need, as requested by the students and their music teachers, after factoring in support from school, family, and other local sources.yme also provides general financial support to wmea all-state and nafme all-northwest honor groups to help reduce costs for all participating students.
$1,636,250 spent100% of program spendingA portion of the license fees are set aside to augment school music program funds to enable the purchase of equipment, supplies, and repairs beyond their normal budgeted expenses through grants that are administered by the organization.
"voice" magazine is published quarterly and sent to state music educators and other subscribers (members); poco voce is published annually and sent to state music educators. Programs are published annually for conferences, honor group concerts, state solo and ensemble contests, wmea all-state, and nafme all-northwest honor groups.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,636,250.
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 2021 to 2022, from $551k to $324k (−41%).
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 13% · 2022 25% · 2023 13% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of Washington Music Educators Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
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.
Chief executive
Scott Ketron
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $12k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Washington Music Educators Association’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
Washington Music Educators Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Washington Music Educators Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of Washington Music Educators Association's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $677 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
Washington Music Educators Association's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Washington Music Educators Association
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Washington Music Educators Association: 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 Washington Music Educators Association?
- Washington Music Educators Association (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $606,986 to it, the largest being MUSIC AID NORTHWEST ($589,409). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Washington Music Educators Association have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $606,986 in grants to Washington Music Educators Association, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Washington Music Educators Association?
- MUSIC AID NORTHWEST is the largest funder on record, with $589,409 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Washington Music Educators Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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