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WE MAKE NOISE INC

WE MAKE NOISE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,476 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($117,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$352k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$361k
Net assets
$83k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What We Make Noise Inc does

Mission

We harness the power of music and technology to advance global gender equity, equipping our communities with tools that cultivate limitless potential.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

Added paternships and development insted of py's chapters program.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. General programs - education, community building, and professional development programming for our global community.

    $190,872 spentof which $950 as grants
    76% of program spending
  2. Chapter development - launch and sustaining our regional chapter communities.

    $29,378 spentof which $320 as grants
    12% of program spending
  3. Partnerships and development - education, community building and professional development programming happening on a local and regional level

    $9,834 spentof which $315 as grants
    4% of program spending
  4. Other programs - fort collins songwriting camp, band lab and chapters.

    $20,495 spentof which $3,312 as grants
    8% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $250,579.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($190k) Expenses 100 ($43k) Net assets 100 ($180k)2022 Revenue 131 ($250k) Expenses 583 ($250k) Net assets 57 ($103k)2023 Revenue 237 ($451k) Expenses 848 ($364k) Net assets 106 ($191k)2024 Revenue 208 ($395k) Expenses 1210 ($519k) Net assets 37 ($67k)2025 Revenue 185 ($352k) Expenses 785 ($336k) Net assets 46 ($83k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (185)Expenses (785)Net assets (46)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 2023 to 2024, from $210k to $88k (−58%).

$180k
$103k
$210k
$88k
$98k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 10% · 2024 3% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of WE MAKE NOISE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$147k
’21
−$64
’22
$88k
’23
−$124k
’24
$15k
’25
3.5
months of
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.

2022202320242025
Listed6999
Joined·+4+4+4
No longer listed·144
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $44k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 WE MAKE NOISE 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

WE MAKE NOISE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

74% 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 WE MAKE NOISE INC.

33%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 73% · 2022 44% · 2023 45% — 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

14% of WE MAKE NOISE INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

WE MAKE NOISE INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 6 states in all.

NY
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k 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

WE MAKE NOISE INC has grown faster than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like WE MAKE NOISE INC

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 25%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

75%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds WE MAKE NOISE INC?
WE MAKE NOISE INC (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,476 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($117,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WE MAKE NOISE INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $361,476 in grants to WE MAKE NOISE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WE MAKE NOISE INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $117,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WE MAKE NOISE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing