New York · Nonprofit
WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC
WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $828 to it, the largest being ACKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $828
- Net assets
- $24k
What Wham Wildcats Helping the Arts & Music Inc does
Mission
WHAM is a school booster club that supports the fine and performing arts in the Shoreham Wading River School District by enhancing already existing programs, providing high school seniors with scholarships, hosting a banquet for high school students and being an advocate for the arts
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
WHAM is a school booster club that supports the fine and performing arts in the Shoreham Wading River School District by enhancing already existing programs, providing high school seniors with scholarships, hosting a banquet for high school students and being an advocacate for the arts.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $722 → $48.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC 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
WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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: 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 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
WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,361 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,361 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2019
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC?
- WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $828 to it, the largest being ACKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $828 in grants to WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC?
- ACKER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHAM WILDCATS HELPING THE ARTS & MUSIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), 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