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Bmi Foundation Inc

Bmi foundation, inc.

$253k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Arts & Culture$134kEducation$16k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $22,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $253,085 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $231,085 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$16,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA$16,000
CABRILLO FESTIVAL$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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $10k → 10%CABRILLO FESTIVAL: $6k → 13%YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY: $10k → 17%BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS: $5k → 20%ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL: $9k → 6%SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $10k → 10%AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA: $16k → 17%BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS: $5k → 20%ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL: $9k → 6%THE CITY COLLEGE FUND: $6k → 17%MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF ASPEN INC: $9k → 6%NEW YORK ART ENSEMBLE: $30k → 17%NEW MUSIC USA: $9k → 17%NEW MUSIC USA: $6k → 17%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.
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72k · 4 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +141% since the first grant, against +76% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 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

4
4

Total granted

$72k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+141%
+76%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’22’24
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • MA
    MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $27k · revenue +141%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue -26%
  • NM
    NEW MUSIC USA INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +244%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +76%
  • YM
    YOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • NY
    NEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +127%
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
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
2
Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music
Arts & Culture
3
Foundation for Modern Opera
—
4
The New York Festival of Song Inc

NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…

—
5
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra

Advancement of the art of music and public knowledge therefor by producing performances. Featuring emerging conductors and musical soloists.

Arts & Culture
6
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

—
7
The New York New Music Ensemble Inc

To commission and perform new music

Arts & Culture
8
The Musicians Aid Society of New York Inc
Arts & Culture
9
C4 Choral Composer Conductor Collective

To commission and perform choral works

Arts & Culture
10
Charleston Symphony Orchestra

The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
11
California Music Center

To seek and nurture exceptional young string musicians, foster and further their performance and professional skills development, and provide them with performance opportunities and monetary support.

Arts & Culture
12
Cleveland Chamber Symphony Council Inc

Music Performance - Performing free concerts of new symphonic music

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Music Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

10 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INCAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INCNEW MUSIC USA INC: $14,500 · Arts & CultureNEW MUSIC USA INCYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATIONBROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INCNEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INCSAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $20,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OR…CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: $6,000 · OtherCABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CON…THE CITY COLLEGE FUND: $6,000 · OtherTHE CITY COLLEGE FUNDNew York University: $30,000 · EducationNew York University
Arts & Culture$87,500Other$32,000Education$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW MUSIC USA INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE FUND: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Amphion Foundatio…The Aaron Copland Fun…Ann & Gordon Getty Fo…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Bmi Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bmi Foundation Inc. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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 · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to Bmi Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bmi Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 10 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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