New York · Public charity
Ascap Foundation
The ASCAP Foundation is dedicated to nurturing the music talent of tomorrow, preserving the legacy of the past and sustaining the creative incentive for today's music creators through a variety of educational, professional and humanitarian programs and activities that serve the entire music community.
- $509k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $113k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,327
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Ascap Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $113k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $129k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $136k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $95k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $109k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $82k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Orleans Arts & Cultural Host Committee | $108,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Jazzmobile Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Alfred Music Publishing Company | $84,998 | 6 | n/a |
| Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | $62,248 | 4 | 0% |
| Songwritingwithinc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Rosie's Theater Kids Inc | $57,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc | $55,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Broadway Inbound | $26,139 | 2 | n/a |
| Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 5% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Orleans Arts & Cultural Host Committee | $108,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Jazzmobile Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Alfred Music Publishing Company | $84,998 | 6 | n/a |
| Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | $62,248 | 4 | 0% |
| Songwritingwithinc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Rosie's Theater Kids Inc | $57,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc | $55,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Broadway Inbound | $26,139 | 2 | n/a |
| Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rhinebeck Writers Retreat Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Theatre Direct NY Inc | $17,146 | 2 | n/a |
| Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles | $14,719 | 2 | 0% |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $12,615 | 2 | 0% |
| Nederlander Productions | $8,640 | 1 | n/a |
| The Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| St John School of the Arts | $7,000 | 1 | 3% |
| New York Youth Symphony Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ascap Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Ascap Foundation
- How much does Ascap Foundation give?
- Ascap Foundation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $113,364, out of $508,649 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ascap Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
- Who are Ascap Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: New Orleans Arts & Cultural Host Committee ($108k), Jazzmobile Inc ($90k), Alfred Music Publishing Company ($85k).
- Does Ascap Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ascap Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Ascap Foundation based?
- Ascap Foundation is based in NY.
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