Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION
WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,155 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($80,167). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $173k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Weathervane Music Organization does
Mission
To advance independent music, art, and the communities that surround them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Recording program this includes program activities previously reported separately as "shaking through", "open sessions", "recording workshops", and "edu program". The open sessions series is weathervane's newest experiment in non-profit music production and story telling. Each open session is a real recording session with an exciting new artist, held in front of a small audience. We capture video during the recording session to tell the artist's story and show the various stages and techniques of the recording process. Later, we release the music to our audience through digital channels (e.g. Youtube, streaming services, facebook, instagram, and tiktok), and like all weathervane recording programs, we share the multitracks from the recordings with donors and supporting members around the world. They download the high-quality production materials, remix them, and share their work back with the community on the weathervane website. In its second year, weathervane produced and released open sessions with two artists - philadelphia band gladie, and asheville, nc artist rachel angel. In addition, weathervane has continued to maintain its larger catalog of multitracks, making the…
$66,931 spent80% of program spendingConsulting program since 2023, weathervane has provided consulting and fiscal sponsorship for small nonprofits outside of the philadelphia region. This project was largely inspired by the hundreds of correspondences we had over years (but particularly during the pandemic) with people hoping to unite their own creative work with community-focused projects where they live and work. In 2025, weathervane provided consulting and fiscal sponsorship for "lamplight avl", an artist residency program based in asheville, north carolina. Lamplight was interested in developing a business plan and securing their own 501(c)(3) status with the irs. Weathervane met with lamplight every two weeks through the duration of this consultancy, working through several iterations of project ideas, organizational branding, etc. The consultancy ended shortly after the 2025 fiscal year began, when lamplight received its nonprofit status, only weeks before hurricane helene wreaked havoc on their community. Since that time, lamplight has made artist recovery from that devastating event the focus of their work. In addition, we worked with "bring your song", a songwriting nonprofit organization based in akron,…
$16,733 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $83,664.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14k to $75k (+421%).
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: 2019 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Brian Mctear
Exec. Dir/bo
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $29k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION’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
WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 86% · 2022 99% · 2023 46% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k 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.
Against its field
WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
91%
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 WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION: 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 WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION?
- WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,155 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($80,167). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $173,155 in grants to WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION?
- THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEATHERVANE MUSIC ORGANIZATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 7 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