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WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC

WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,084 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($35,962). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
$98k
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Against its field

WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($845k) Expenses 100 ($901k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 117 ($986k) Expenses 107 ($960k) Net assets 101 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 127 ($1.1M) Expenses 110 ($992k) Net assets 109 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 25 ($212k) Expenses 42 ($381k) Net assets 96 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 114 ($965k) Expenses 47 ($428k) Net assets 139 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 136 ($1.2M) Expenses 105 ($944k) Net assets 154 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 169 ($1.4M) Expenses 132 ($1.2M) Net assets 174 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 157 ($1.3M) Expenses 138 ($1.2M) Net assets 182 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (138)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
17
$26k
18
$80k
19
$169k
20
$537k
21
$206k
22
$239k
23
$82k
24
3.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $23k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)68% 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 WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION 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

WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

68% 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 WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC.

37%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 73% · 2021 80% · 2022 42% · 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

68% of WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $32k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states.

IL
MI
CT

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & 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 19%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC?
WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,084 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($35,962). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $98,084 in grants to WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $35,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WHEATLAND MUSIC ORGANIZATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing