Tennessee · Nonprofit
WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION
WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $2k
What We Want Music Foundation does
Mission
To support, advocate and celebrate instr
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Private lesson program(plp) provides free private lessons to 5 to 10 student a year. All year long
$12,000 spent86% of program spendingCollege transition/next steps scholarships supports students for other community music programs and provides scholarships to be used for the transition to college or life expenses.
$915 spent7% of program spendingProfessional artist support provides artist with support for music training, etc.
$1,000 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,915.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $293 to $0 (−100%).
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.
100% of WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Marc Willis
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION’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 WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
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.
Against its field
WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION: 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 WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION?
- WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION?
- MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WE WANT MUSIC FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2023–2025), 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