How Musack Works

Musack is run low-fi as a 501(c)3 with low overhead with an 8-member volunteer board of directors and one year-round part-time staff member. Musack raises funds through events on Nantucket and in Los Angeles. The largest of those events is Musack’s annual Rock n’ Roll Carnival in Los Angeles, which raises as much as $100,000 to cover Musack’s low expenses and put towards instruments for our programs.

Our team checks in with the programs we support on a regular basis to take requests on further supplies needed and ensure that past donations are in use. When receiving requests from new programs, we require an application form to ensure the program’s mission aligns with Musack’s mission and that the instruments will be used effectively. Our board of directors votes on all donations made.

We do not discriminate on types of programs. We support worldwide public and nonprofit programs that occur during school hours, after school, and on weekends as well as scholarships for students to participate in for-profit programs and to go to music college.