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Acm Lifting Lives

ACM LIFTING LIVES music dedicated to improving lives through the power of music.

$631k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$182k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.1MArts & Culture$427kPhilanthropy$127kEducation$51kEmployment$48kYouth Development$32kHuman Services$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $177k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $397k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE$182,050
PORTER'S CALL$90,000
VUMC DEVELOPMENT$75,000
MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE$50,000
HOPE DESK$32,000
TOURING CAREER WORKSHOP$25,000
ABE'S GARDEN$20,491
WEST FALL CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,000
TEXAS SUPREMACY OF MUSIC ARTS CONS$10,000
CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION OF AAPOS$10,000
KEY CHORALE INC$10,000
MULTICARE HEALTH FOUNDATIONS$10,000
COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION$10,000
CARE DIMENSIONS$10,000
IRIS COLLECTIVE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE KEYS PROGRAM: $5k → 14%WEST SIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $7k → 14%PERC INC: $10k → 9%THE ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $8k → 11%PORTER'S CALL: $100k → 4%SONGS FOR SOUND: $7k → 14%PORTER'S CALL: $50k → 4%KESEM: $5k → 14%PORTER'S CALL: $15k → 14%SONGS FOR SOUNDS: $10k → 14%SONGS FOR SOUND: $10k → 14%PORTER'S CALL: $7k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE OF NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%MUSIC FOR SENIORS: $7k → 14%MUSIC FOR SENIORS: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
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MN
IL
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NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
AZ
KS
TN
SC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 19 repeat orgs$611k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
40

Total granted

$3.1M
$377k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +120%
  • MH
    MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $699k · revenue +228%
  • RS
    RYAN SEACREST FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $500k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +47%
  • SG
    SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Cleveland Music School Settlement

To welcome all to our music and arts community to learn, create, celebrate and heal.

Arts & Culture
2
Hear Your Song Inc

Hear Your Song empowers children and teens living with serious illnesses and complex health needs to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting. At the heart of our work is a "kid-driven," totally individualized process that…

Health
3
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
4
Soundexchange Inc

Soundexchange is the premier music tech organization on a mission to power the (see schedule o)

Community Improvement
5
Community Music Center of Boston Inc

Community music center of boston ("cmcb") transforms lives throughout greater boston by providing equitable access to excellent music education and arts experiences.

Arts & Culture
6
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
7
American Composers Forum

To advocate for and support living composers

Arts & Culture
8
Songs of Love Foundation

Its mission is to bring joy and comfort, laughter and healing to children and young adults who are chronically or terminally ill. it does so through personalized songs that honor the child. its motto is: the medicine of music.

Human Services
9
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
10
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
11
Settlement Music School of Philadelphia

Settlement music school's mission is to provide the highest quality instruction in music and the related arts to children and adults, without regard to age, race or financial circumstances. settlement's broad range of programs, taught by…

Arts & Culture
12
The Perlman Music Program Inc

See schedule oyoung musicians of talent need support. left alone with their gift,without the instruction and mentoring that allows them to thrive, eventhe most exceptional young artists will struggle, and many may fail toachieve their full…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abilities First Inc; the most unlike its peers is Brett Eldredge Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/75
Grantees still filing
46/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $1,075,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $699,050 · HealthMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC+8 more: $108,440 · Health+8 moreRYAN SEACREST FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyRYAN SEACREST FOUNDATI…CANDID: $115,875 · PhilanthropyCANDIDVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $112,053 · PhilanthropyVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNI…+3 more: $23,663 · PhilanthropyPORTERS CALL: $261,980 · Human ServicesPORTERS CA…Songs for Sound Inc: $26,980 · Human ServicesSongs for …MUSIC FOR SENIORS: $12,480 · Human Services+7 more: $55,125 · Human Services+7 moreOPERATION SONG INC: $48,600 · Arts & CultureMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVETS: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNotes For Notes Inc: $16,980 · Arts & CultureCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $16,980 · Arts & CultureWO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $16,527 · Arts & CultureSONGWRITINGWITHINC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureIRIS ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWEST FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureProject Miracle: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePEGGY R MCCONNELL ARTS CENTER OF WORTHINGTON: $10,000 · Arts & CultureROCK TO RECOVERY: $8,132 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $17,980 · Arts & CultureHOPE DESK: $32,000 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $19,754 · OtherSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $16,980 · OtherMULTICARE SOUTH KING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCare Dimensions Inc: $10,000 · OtherMAGNOLIA MEMORY CARE INC: $10,000 · OtherPOSSIBILITIES INC: $10,000 · OtherKEY CHORALE INC: $10,000 · OtherUINTAH SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS: $10,000 · OtherLawrence Hall: $10,000 · OtherPERSONAL COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $10,000 · OtherABE'S GARDEN: $20,491 · OtherCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $15,780 · Other+11 more: $71,715 · OtherTouring Career Workshop: $47,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $14,204 · EducationMaryville University - St Louis: $6,980 · EducationTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $6,980 · EducationPERFECT HARMONY HEALTH INC: $6,600 · EducationWARTBURG COLLEGE: $5,863 · EducationUNITED SOUND INC: $5,671 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $5,400 · EducationMomentous Institute: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC: $16,980 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TEXAS SUPREMACY OF MUSIC AND ARTS CONSERVATORY: $10,000 · Youth Development
Health$2,032,490Philanthropy$751,591Human Services$356,565Arts & Culture$238,199Other$281,720Education$99,198Youth Development$76,980

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $1,075,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $699,050 over 7y, 12% of budgetRYAN SEACREST FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetPORTERS CALL: $261,980 over 5y, 11% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANDID: $115,875 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $112,053 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMomentous Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SONG INC: $48,600 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetTouring Career Workshop: $47,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetSongs for Sound Inc: $26,980 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT CAMP INC: $24,480 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMUSICIANS ON CALL INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetABE'S GARDEN: $20,491 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVETS: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC: $16,980 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNotes For Notes Inc: $16,980 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $16,980 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $16,980 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $16,527 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $15,780 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSONGWRITINGWITHINC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $14,204 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC FOR SENIORS: $12,480 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetResounding Joy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetChildren's Eye Foundation The Foundation Of AAPOS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCROWLEY ROTARY OUTREACH FORMERLY-COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIRIS ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGNOLIA MEMORY CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE TEXAS SUPREMACY OF MUSIC AND ARTS CONSERVATORY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPOSSIBILITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKEY CHORALE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPAISLEY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWEST FALLS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLawrence Hall: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Miracle: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPEGGY R MCCONNELL ARTS CENTER OF WORTHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPERSONAL COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund: $8,663 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetABILITIES FIRST INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $8,145 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetROCK TO RECOVERY: $8,132 over 1y, 4.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Cma FoundationGibson Gives Foundati…Memorial Foundation I…Les Paul FoundationNashville Predators F…Hca Healthcare Founda…The Frist FoundationD'Addario Foundation …Enterprise Holdings F…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Network for Good
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN28.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Acm Lifting Lives funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acm Lifting Lives. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 86%
  • The Key Program Incorporated: 86% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home