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Bang on a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. BANG ON A CAN believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. Through it's summer institute, BANG ON A CAN hopes to bring this energy and passion for innovation to a younger generation of composers and players.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,447,728
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,447,728
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.6M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Found Sound Nation Inc$1,647,728276%

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About Bang on a Can

How much does Bang on a Can give?
Bang on a Can reported 1 grants totaling $1,447,728 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Bang on a Can fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Bang on a Can's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Found Sound Nation Inc ($1.6M).
Where is Bang on a Can based?
Bang on a Can is based in NY.

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 1 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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