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· Public charity
ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC
To improve lives by connecting and engaging fans, artists and the industry.
$400k
Granted FY2021
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Grants
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Communities
$400k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2021.
Philanthropy$2.0MHealth$28kEducation$18kArts & Culture$5kOther$143k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
educationemergencycancer diabetesraisingeducateissuesbenefit
2019
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2020
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2021
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$400,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ACM LIFTING LIVES$400,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Country Music Association Inc
Serve as a professional resource for the country music industry
Arts & Culture
2
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
3
Nashville Songwriters Foundation
To educate, archive and celebrate songwriting that is uniquely associated with the nashville songwriting community.
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4
The Cma Foundation
Provide financial support to causes that are important to the country music association
Philanthropy
5
Memphis Music Archives Inc
The mission of the mll is to promote the enjoyment, study, and research of popular music from memphis and beyond.
Arts & Culture
6
National Music Publishers Association Inc
Nmpa promotes, protects and advances the interests of music publishers and songwriters in matters relating to domestic and global protection of copyrights.
Employment
7
Nmpa Songs Foundation
To support songwriters through funding educational programs, direct financial assistance and services, and through partnerships with like-minded institutions and organizations to enhance opportunities for music creators.
Education
8
The Consortium Mmt
To develop a viable music industry in memphis for the future by providing a structured learning environment to enrich and equip our talents with proven tools to build the next generation of successful music professionals. the consortium…
Arts & Culture
9
Nashville Blues and Roots Alliance
Arts & Culture
10
American Coalition for Public Radio
Information about public radio by way of protectmypublicmedia.org and related social media channels. protectmypublicmedia.org and the related social media channels also include selected examples of public radio content and encourage the…
Arts & Culture
11
Birthplace of Country Music Inc
The birthplace of country music seeks to perpetuate, promote, and celebrate bristols rich musical heritage
Arts & Culture
12
Anthology of Recorded Music Inc
We are dedicated to the documentation of american music that is largely ignored by the commercial recording companies.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Music and the most unlike its peers is Valley Relics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$1,978,028Other$142,500Health$27,500Education$17,500Arts & Culture$5,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ACM LIFTING LIVES ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY RADIO BROADCASTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF INDEPEDENT MUSIC PUBLISHERS ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE - MFEI ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPRY TRUST FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PRESS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE ONSITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RELICS SFVR MUSEUM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
The Community Foundation of MiddleTN16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · Country Music Association Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ACM LIFTING LIVES.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +95% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 841638671 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ACM LIFTING LIVES, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 64% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Academy of Country Music?
Find your warmest path to Academy of Country Music through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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State money flows
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