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· Public charity

American Music Therapy Association

To advance public awareness of the benefits of music therapy and increase access to quality music therapy services in a rapidly changing world.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$16k
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$165kScience & Tech$56kEducation$48k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $46,226, the rows itemized in this filing. The $48,564 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,338 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$15,638
Median grant
4
States reached
$813k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$15,813
SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY$15,638
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$8,775
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$6,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $8k → 22%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $8k → 17%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $16k → 18%CHILDHAVEN: $30k → 9%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $16k → 16%NATIONAL MUSIC THERAPY REGISTRY: $13k → 8%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%SWEEDISH MEDIAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $28k → 9%SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $17k → 9%CHILDHAVEN: $15k → 9%SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $11k → 9%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

WA
NY
IN
PA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$180k · 6 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$180k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
EducationHealthOther
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

  • SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $57k · revenue +400%
  • C
    CHILDHAVEN
    2× · 2019–2020 · $45k · revenue +32%
  • MF
    MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $28k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSIC THERAPY REGISTRY
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +10%
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +59%
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
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
8
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Molloy University; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDHAVEN: $45,000 · OtherCHILDHAVENARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $18,773 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYIndiana University School of Medicine: $15,813 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineNATIONAL MUSIC THERAPY REGISTRY: $13,452 · OtherNATIONAL MUSIC THERAPY REGISTRYCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,497 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $5,755 · OtherFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITYSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $56,876 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $27,500 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONSUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $16,000 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research F…University of Miami: $15,933 · EducationUniversity of MiamiSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $15,638 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $9,997 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYNew York University: $7,500 · EducationNew York UniversityTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $7,500 · EducationTemple University - Of The Common…MOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $6,341 · EducationMOLLOY UNIVERSITY
Other$106,290Health$84,376Education$78,909

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $56,876 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $15,933 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $15,638 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $9,997 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOLLOY UNIVERSITY: $6,341 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Music Therapy Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Music Therapy Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 15 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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