How much did CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

residency partnershipclassical commissioningpresenter consortiumconsortium jazz

2020

residency partnershipcleveland quartetquartet awardclassical commissioningpresenter consortiumconsortium jazz

2021

digital residencyclassical commissioningpresenter consortiumconsortium jazzensemble forward

2022

classical commissiongperformance plusartisticjazz worksculturalencouragecreation

2023

jazz dukevocalartisticeducationalroomful teethspectrumdiverse

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k3 grants · $24k
$10k–50k60 grants · $897k

$11,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

EMILIO SOLLA$36,000
LAURA KABASOMI KAKOMA$35,000
JIMMY GREENE$32,000
INFRASOUND INC$26,000
INFRASOUND INC$26,000
ROOMFUL OF TEETH$23,000
ROOMFUL OF TEETH$23,000
DECODA INC$20,750
DECODA INC$20,750
VOLKER GOETZE$20,000
ARKAI MUSIC LLC$20,000
ARKAI MUSIC LLC$20,000
NEW MUSIC INSTITUTE OF KANSAS CITY (DBA NEWEAR)$20,000
NEW MUSIC INSTITUTE OF KANSAS CITY (DBA NEWEAR)$20,000
ALI BELLO$19,850

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$687k · 25 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

132

Total granted

$687k

$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+14%

Still filing today

84%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $786k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

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INFRASOUND INC
2× · 2019–2023 · $52k · revenue +5%
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THE JAZZ SALON
3× · 2018–2023 · $51k · revenue +23%
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UNHEARD-OF ENSEMBLE INC
2× · 2020–2023 · $43k · revenue +16%

Funded once

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LONGLEASH TRIO
one grant, 2022 · $42k
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SAMUEL TORRES GROUP
one grant, 2022 · $37k
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SAJEVOICES LLC (JOHNAYE KENDRICK)
one grant, 2022 · $34k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Seattle Chamber Music Festival

To foster the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable audience through education…

Arts & Culture

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.

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San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.

Education

Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra

Pro musica chamber orchestra of columbus, inc. delivers a world-class and unique classical music experience - through innovative chamber orchestra programming, educational outreach, audience intimacy, and artistic excellence.

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San Jose Chamber Music Society

To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…

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Constella Arts

Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.

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Foundation for Modern Opera

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Arx Music Association

arx duo is a percussion chamber group dedicated to the creation and presentation of new music. arx duos mission is to foster audiences that are imaginative and open-minded through engagement and art; forming intrinsic values that further…

Arts & Culture

Qubit New Music

Promotion of the Arts

Arts & Culture

Santa Fe Concert Association

Performance santa fe (psf) is dedicated to support performing arts by bringing world-class performing artists to santa fe and providing excellent arts education to the youth in the community.

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Monterey Jazz Festival

The Monterey Jazz Festival's mission is to inspire the discovery and celebration of jazz, anchored by an iconic festival.

Arts & Culture

New York Jazzharmonic Inc

Jazz, classical. and world music education and performances. Music and dance concerts. Podcasting. Also act as fiscal sponsor for other performing arts projects. NOTE: The New York Jazzharmonic was mostly inactive during the pandemic due…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts & Education Continuum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%5/198

the rest of the field

11%

206,159/1,819,367

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

98 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

94/98

Grantees still filing

69/98

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,778,739Arts & Culture$1,395,717Education$41,000Community Improvement$26,750Religion$17,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Music USA IncNY61.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Music USA Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Western States Arts Federation · Albertine Foundation · The University of the Arts · National Performance Network Inc · Fractured Atlas Inc

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EKMELES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 9.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 472603953 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on EKMELES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 68% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Chamber Music America Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chamber Music America Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

98 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chamber Music America Inc?

More from the funding graph

CHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

98 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chamber Music America Inc?

More from the funding graph