Illinois · Nonprofit
WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,725,401 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($434,583). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What West Point Fellowship Inc Dba West Point School of Music does
Mission
The mission is to be a community music school, band instrument repair facility, steel drum manufacturing - performing ensemble epic steel orchestra, and urban music makers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of the school is to engage urban youth through music instruction and performance: cultivating artistically connected, socially conscious productive adults.
$910,947 spent$163,762 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $910,947.
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 $446k to $1.3M (+190%).
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: 2017 55% · 2018 10% · 2020 4% · 2021 2% · 2022 40% · 2023 57% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Rich Breske
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $20k → $184k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. 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
WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 45% · 2019 71% · 2020 40% · 2021 65% · 2022 62% · 2023 41% — 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
50% of WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
87% of WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $460k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,399 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,399 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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 WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: 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 WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC?
- WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,725,401 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($434,583). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,725,401 in grants to WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $434,583 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST POINT FELLOWSHIP INC DBA WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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