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2025 Annual Report
2025 Annual Report
Executive Summary In 2025, Music In Everything Corporation (ME) advanced its mission to connect formal and informal instrumental music instruction with STEM+C disciplines, empowering 21st-century learners. ME scaled research, expanded partnerships, and deployed scalable curricular tools that bridged music, technology, and classroom practice. Financially, the organization maintained sustainable growth while strategically investing in program development and evaluation.
Key Achievements
Research and Publications: Published three peer-reviewed studies examining the cognitive and computational benefits of integrated instrumental instruction across elementary and secondary settings. Findings highlighted improved pattern recognition, executive function, and computational thinking among participating students.
Curriculum and Tools: Launched ME-Connect, a modular curriculum series and teacher toolkit that maps instrumental techniques to coding concepts, signal processing basics, and data literacy exercises. Piloted in 42 schools across urban, suburban, and rural districts, reaching 8,600 students.
Professional Development: Trained 1,120 educators through blended workshops and micro-credential programs focusing on pedagogies that integrate music and STEM+C. Post-training surveys showed a 78% increase in teacher confidence implementing cross-disciplinary lessons.
Partnerships and Outreach: Formalized collaborations with three universities, two educational technology companies, and four school districts. Hosted the inaugural ME Symposium, convening 220 researchers, educators, and industry partners to share practice and research.
Equity and Access: Expanded instrument lending libraries and distributed 1,450 starter instrument kits in under-resourced schools. Implemented sliding-scale licensing for ME-Connect to ensure affordability.
Technology and Innovation: Completed development of an open-format sonic dataset and companion visualization tools for classroom use, enabling students to explore sound analysis, machine listening, and algorithmic composition.
Assessment and Impact: Implemented a mixed-methods evaluation framework, capturing quantitative performance gains and qualitative classroom narratives. Schools reported higher student engagement, particularly among learners historically underrepresented in STEM.
Financial Highlights
Revenue: $5.2M total revenue for fiscal year 2025, a 12% increase year-over-year driven by grants, program fees, and partnership contracts.
Expenses: $4.6M total operating expenses, reflecting strategic investments in curriculum development, staff growth, and technology infrastructure.
Net Position: $600K surplus, added to operating reserves to support multi-year program continuity.
Funding Sources: 48% grants and philanthropic support, 32% program revenue and service contracts, 12% licensing and product revenue, 8% other income.
Program Performance Metrics
Students served (direct): 8,600
Educators trained: 1,120
Partner schools/districts: 42
Instruments distributed: 1,450
Peer-reviewed publications: 3
ME Symposium participants: 220
Strategic Initiatives Launched
ME-STEAM Fellowship: A year-long teacher fellowship supporting classroom implementation, action research, and community-based exhibitions. Cohort 1 included 24 teachers.
Open Sonic Lab: Community-access lab offering workshops in sound engineering, algorithmic composition, and maker-centered instrument design.
Data-for-Learning Dashboard: Piloted analytics dashboard for educators to track student progress on cross-disciplinary competencies, privacy-compliant and designed for low-bandwidth contexts.
Evaluation and Learning
Short-term outcomes: Increased engagement, cross-disciplinary skill development (pattern recognition, sequencing, basic algorithmic thinking), and higher teacher capacity for integrated instruction.
Mid-term outcomes: Improved academic attitudes toward STEM+C among participating students; preliminary evidence of transfer to math and coding assessments.
Long-term goals: Scale evidence-based practices nationally, influence policy for integrated arts/STEM curricula, and sustain instrument access programs.
Governance and Leadership
Board: Expanded to include two new members with expertise in educational data science and philanthropic strategy.
Staff Growth: Added nine staff across curriculum development, research, and partnerships.
Operational Priorities: Strengthening data security and impact measurement, investing in cloud infrastructure to support ME-Connect scale-up, and developing cost-recovery models that preserve equitable access.
Risks and Mitigation
Funding variability: Diversified revenue streams and established multi-year grant commitments to reduce risk.
Technology adoption barriers: Built low-tech lesson variations and provided on-site support visits to ensure equitable implementation.
Evidence scaling: Committed to multi-site randomized trials and external evaluation partnerships to validate outcomes at scale.
Looking Ahead — 2026 Priorities
National scaling of ME-Connect to reach 25,000 students over three years.
Expanded randomized controlled trials to strengthen causal evidence of academic impact.
Development of multilingual curriculum modules and culturally responsive repertoire.
Launch of a teacher-led open repository for lesson exchange and student artifacts.
Acknowledgments ME thanks funders, partner districts, university collaborators, educators, students, and staff
2025 Annual Report
Executive Summary In 2025, Music In Everything Corporation (ME) advanced its mission to connect formal and informal instrumental music instruction with STEM+C disciplines, empowering 21st-century learners. ME scaled research, expanded partnerships, and deployed scalable curricular tools that bridged music, technology, and classroom practice. Financially, the organization maintained sustainable growth while strategically investing in program development and evaluation.
Key Achievements
Research and Publications: Published three peer-reviewed studies examining the cognitive and computational benefits of integrated instrumental instruction across elementary and secondary settings. Findings highlighted improved pattern recognition, executive function, and computational thinking among participating students.
Curriculum and Tools: Launched ME-Connect, a modular curriculum series and teacher toolkit that maps instrumental techniques to coding concepts, signal processing basics, and data literacy exercises. Piloted in 42 schools across urban, suburban, and rural districts, reaching 8,600 students.
Professional Development: Trained 1,120 educators through blended workshops and micro-credential programs focusing on pedagogies that integrate music and STEM+C. Post-training surveys showed a 78% increase in teacher confidence implementing cross-disciplinary lessons.
Partnerships and Outreach: Formalized collaborations with three universities, two educational technology companies, and four school districts. Hosted the inaugural ME Symposium, convening 220 researchers, educators, and industry partners to share practice and research.
Equity and Access: Expanded instrument lending libraries and distributed 1,450 starter instrument kits in under-resourced schools. Implemented sliding-scale licensing for ME-Connect to ensure affordability.
Technology and Innovation: Completed development of an open-format sonic dataset and companion visualization tools for classroom use, enabling students to explore sound analysis, machine listening, and algorithmic composition.
Assessment and Impact: Implemented a mixed-methods evaluation framework, capturing quantitative performance gains and qualitative classroom narratives. Schools reported higher student engagement, particularly among learners historically underrepresented in STEM.
Financial Highlights
Revenue: $5.2M total revenue for fiscal year 2025, a 12% increase year-over-year driven by grants, program fees, and partnership contracts.
Expenses: $4.6M total operating expenses, reflecting strategic investments in curriculum development, staff growth, and technology infrastructure.
Net Position: $600K surplus, added to operating reserves to support multi-year program continuity.
Funding Sources: 48% grants and philanthropic support, 32% program revenue and service contracts, 12% licensing and product revenue, 8% other income.
Program Performance Metrics
Students served (direct): 8,600
Educators trained: 1,120
Partner schools/districts: 42
Instruments distributed: 1,450
Peer-reviewed publications: 3
ME Symposium participants: 220
Strategic Initiatives Launched
ME-STEAM Fellowship: A year-long teacher fellowship supporting classroom implementation, action research, and community-based exhibitions. Cohort 1 included 24 teachers.
Open Sonic Lab: Community-access lab offering workshops in sound engineering, algorithmic composition, and maker-centered instrument design.
Data-for-Learning Dashboard: Piloted analytics dashboard for educators to track student progress on cross-disciplinary competencies, privacy-compliant and designed for low-bandwidth contexts.
Evaluation and Learning
Short-term outcomes: Increased engagement, cross-disciplinary skill development (pattern recognition, sequencing, basic algorithmic thinking), and higher teacher capacity for integrated instruction.
Mid-term outcomes: Improved academic attitudes toward STEM+C among participating students; preliminary evidence of transfer to math and coding assessments.
Long-term goals: Scale evidence-based practices nationally, influence policy for integrated arts/STEM curricula, and sustain instrument access programs.
Governance and Leadership
Board: Expanded to include two new members with expertise in educational data science and philanthropic strategy.
Staff Growth: Added nine staff across curriculum development, research, and partnerships.
Operational Priorities: Strengthening data security and impact measurement, investing in cloud infrastructure to support ME-Connect scale-up, and developing cost-recovery models that preserve equitable access.
Risks and Mitigation
Funding variability: Diversified revenue streams and established multi-year grant commitments to reduce risk.
Technology adoption barriers: Built low-tech lesson variations and provided on-site support visits to ensure equitable implementation.
Evidence scaling: Committed to multi-site randomized trials and external evaluation partnerships to validate outcomes at scale.
Looking Ahead — 2026 Priorities
National scaling of ME-Connect to reach 25,000 students over three years.
Expanded randomized controlled trials to strengthen causal evidence of academic impact.
Development of multilingual curriculum modules and culturally responsive repertoire.
Launch of a teacher-led open repository for lesson exchange and student artifacts.
Acknowledgments ME thanks funders, partner districts, university collaborators, educators, students, and staff