Washington · Nonprofit
WATER MUSIC SOCIETY
WATER MUSIC SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,500 to it, the largest being WYSS FOUNDATION ($105,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $149k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $123k
- Net assets
- $95k
What Water Music Society does
Mission
Hold music concerts and provide for music and arts education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Jazz & Oysters One day outdoor event with musical artists/groups performing on stage
$12,888 spent16% of program spendingWater Music Festival, 1 day event with artists/groups performing jazz and classical music
$27,187 spent34% of program spendingMusic in the Garden One day tour event of private gardens with a musician in each garden
$3,378 spent4% of program spendingChristmas Concert One day event with artist/groups performing holiday music
$10,545 spent13% of program spendingAdditional concert 1 day event with artists/groups performing jazz
$25,102 spent32% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,100.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $91k to $103k (+12%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of WATER MUSIC SOCIETY’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
WATER MUSIC SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 67% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
WATER MUSIC SOCIETY draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like WATER MUSIC SOCIETY
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.
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 WATER MUSIC SOCIETY: 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 WATER MUSIC SOCIETY?
- WATER MUSIC SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,500 to it, the largest being WYSS FOUNDATION ($105,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATER MUSIC SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $122,500 in grants to WATER MUSIC SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATER MUSIC SOCIETY?
- WYSS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATER MUSIC SOCIETY 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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