Tennessee · Public charity
Acm Lifting Lives
ACM LIFTING LIVES music dedicated to improving lives through the power of music. ACM LIFTING LIVES funds music health programs while also serving members of the music community who face unexpected hardships through its diane holcomb emergency relief fund. ACM LIFTING LIVES has funded national music therapy programs serving various mental…
- $631k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $182,050
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Acm Lifting Lives funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $630k | 72% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $602k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $559k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $290k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $494k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $419k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $231k | 68% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $492k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $1,075,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Music Health Alliance Inc | $699,050 | 7 | 12% |
| Ryan Seacrest Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Porters Call | $261,980 | 5 | 11% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Candid | $115,875 | 3 | 0% |
| Momentous Institute | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Operation Song Inc | $48,600 | 3 | 8% |
| Touring Career Workshop | $47,500 | 2 | 16% |
| Hope Desk | $32,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 76 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Acm Lifting Lives supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Cma Foundation · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · Memorial Foundation Inc · Les Paul Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · D'Addario Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Acm Lifting Lives
- How much does Acm Lifting Lives give?
- Acm Lifting Lives reported 25 grants totaling $631,103 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Acm Lifting Lives fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (81%), Arts & Culture (11%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are Acm Lifting Lives's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($1.1M), Music Health Alliance Inc ($699k), Ryan Seacrest Foundation Inc ($500k).
- Does Acm Lifting Lives fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Acm Lifting Lives?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Cma Foundation, Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives.
- Where is Acm Lifting Lives based?
- Acm Lifting Lives is based in TN.
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