New York · Nonprofit
WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,189,901 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($486,725). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $398k
What Whin Music Community Charter School does
Mission
The washington heights and inwood music community charter school ("whin music charter school or "whin") will provide our diverse student population with a rigorous academic instruction, intensive music education, and a positive learning environment so that every student can thrive academically and personally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The washington heights and inwood music community charter school (whin) was founded to offer students from washington heights and inwood a rigorous academic education and intensive daily musical instruction inspired by the internationally-renowned el sistema movement. Serving 486 students in grades k-8 when fully enrolled, whin's vision is to create a positive learning environment that ensures all students are meeting or exceeding learning standards through a rigorous common core-aligned and music-infused curriculum enriched by intensive daily music instruction and community engagement. Our work will be continually guided by the values and practices of el sistema, striving to imbue students with a love of music and learning and inspiring our entire school community to become agents of change in the world through the pursuit of academic and musical excellence. Our program utilizes a project- and inquiry-based instructional model differentiated for each learner's unique needs and facilitates the development of our school community through music and social inclusion. These are proven strategies that provide students with executive function and self-regulation skills (based on three…
$8,263,530 spent$8,554,819 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,263,530.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3.1M to $78M (+2401%).
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: 2018 23% · 2019 14% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 14% · 2023 25% · 2024 20% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Charles Ortiz
Executive director
Board chair
Shewar Khan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $6k → $545k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL’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
WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 80% · 2021 83% · 2022 55% · 2023 57% — 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
57% of WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
51% of WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k 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
WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,189,901 to it, the largest being 50CAN INC ($486,725). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,189,901 in grants to WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL?
- 50CAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $486,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 15 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