New York · Public charity
Chamber Music America Inc
Chamber music america's mission is to develop, support, and strengthen the chamber music community. Cma serves as the hub of this field, comprised of individual artists, independent musical ensembles, volunteer and institutional presenters, and others involved in the performance and presentation of small ensemble music.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 66%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $555k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $37,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 66% of the organizations Chamber Music America Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $387k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentReligionHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $535k | 82% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $538k | 66% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $540k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $896k | 79% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $352k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $353k | 84% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $409k | 87% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $323k | 100% |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Arts & Culture$4.4MCommunity Improvement$69kReligion$11kScience & Tech$10kEmployment$6kEducation$6k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts for Art Inc | $59,664 | 6 | 2% |
| Unheard-Of Ensemble | $54,210 | 3 | 21% |
| Painted Bride Art Center Inc | $47,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Capitalbop Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 27% |
| Infrasound Inc | $44,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Longleash Inc | $42,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ars Nova Workshop Inc | $41,675 | 3 | 2% |
| Akropolis Quintet Inc | $41,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Stanford Jazz Workshop | $41,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Momenta Quartet | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts for Art Inc | $59,664 | 6 | 2% |
| Unheard-Of Ensemble | $54,210 | 3 | 21% |
| Painted Bride Art Center Inc | $47,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Capitalbop Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 27% |
| Infrasound Inc | $44,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Longleash Inc | $42,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ars Nova Workshop Inc | $41,675 | 3 | 2% |
| Akropolis Quintet Inc | $41,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Stanford Jazz Workshop | $41,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Momenta Quartet | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dan Pugach Plus One Music Inc | $37,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samuel Torres Group | $37,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Emilio Solla | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Douglas Beavers Circle 9 LLC | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edward Simon | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stephen Harvey | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Laura Kabasomi Kakoma | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Camila Bello Camila Cortina Bello | $34,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brinae Ali | $34,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sajevoices LLC (Johnaye Kendrick) | $34,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ekmeles Inc | $33,300 | 2 | 68% |
| Benjamin Wendel Wendel Music LLC | $33,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jimmy Greene | $32,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Helen Sung Quartet (Jazzplasticity) | $32,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edmar Castaneda | $31,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oljo Creative Mind | $31,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blues to Green Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Western Wind Vocal Ensemble Inc | $30,880 | 2 | 8% |
| Northwest New Mexico Arts Council | $30,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Galluparts Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Isham Park Restoration Program 1970 | $30,000 | 1 | 54% |
| Friction Performing Arts | $28,500 | 1 | 20% |
| Phoenix Rising Music LLC | $28,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Garth Newel Music Center Foundation | $27,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Boston Musica Viva Inc | $27,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Elastic Arts Foundation | $27,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Redwood Jazz Alliance | $27,000 | 2 | 30% |
| The Luis a Ferre Foundation Inc | $26,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Arkai Music LLC | $26,500 | 2 | n/a |
| The New Quorum | $26,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Quintet of the Americas Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 17% |
| The Jazz Bakery Performance Space | $26,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Sylvan Winds Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 15% |
| The Myrna Loy | $26,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Nameless Sound | $26,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Hallwalls Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 4% |
| The Arts League of Michigan | $26,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Pappy Martin Legacy-Masten Jazz Festival | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| San Jose Jazz | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Dal Niente New Music Nfp | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Switch Ensemble | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Roomful of Teeth Vocal Arts Project | $23,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Dorian Woodwind Foundation Inc | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Quince New Music | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Talea Ensemble Inc | $23,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Shanghai Quartet | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sandbox Percussion | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Picosa | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Parker Quartet LLC | $23,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Monday Evening Concerts | $22,200 | 1 | n/a |
| EastSide Arts Alliance | $22,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Catracha Productions LLC (Ginita y la Orquesta Esa) | $21,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle | $21,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Decoda Inc | $20,750 | 1 | 7% |
| Mildred Bailey Project The | $20,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Blackbox Ensemble | $20,080 | 2 | n/a |
| Juneteenth LP | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hot Summer Jazz Festival | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Volker Goetze | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Musiqa | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tak Ensemble Music Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Excelsis Percussion | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jazz House Kids Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New Music Institute of Kansas City Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Soundbox Ventures Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Elio Villafranca-West | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alicia Waller Frente LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sofia Rei | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| DC Jazz Festival | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Nova Chamber Music Series | $20,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Catalyst Quartet | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Third Coast Percussion Nfp | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Publiquartet | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cortez Center Inc Dba Cortez Cultural Center | $20,000 | 2 | 7% |
| African American Cultural Center | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Syrian Music Preservation Initiative Corp | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ali Bello | $19,850 | 1 | n/a |
| Soli Chamber Ensemble | $19,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Lulu Fall and the Kris Johnson Group | $19,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Attacca Quartet | $19,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Stella Heath | $19,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Erin Snedecor | $19,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The National Jazz Museum in Harlem | $18,900 | 2 | 1% |
| Mia Detwiler (Amorsima) | $18,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Spektral Quartet Nfp | $18,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Ghost Ensemble | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Brass Chamber Music Association Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Khemia Ensemble | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Thread Quartet Inc | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Del Sol Performing Arts Organization | $18,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Amherst Glebe Arts Response Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 14% |
| Indo American Arts Council Inc | $17,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Pappy Martin Legacy Jazz Collective Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Inc | $17,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Latitude 49 New Music Ensemble | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lydianstringquartet | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Don Paul Kahl | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association | $17,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Riverviewjazz Org | $17,000 | 1 | 24% |
| Wefreestrings | $16,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Prism Quartet Incorporated | $16,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Jazz Gallery | $16,000 | 1 | 3% |
| F-Plus | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Michigan University Foundation | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Francisco Jazz Organization | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vortex Repertory Company | $16,000 | 1 | 1% |
| City of East Lansing | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Zephyros Winds Inc | $15,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Enso String Quartet | $15,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Reflections Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hub New Music | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Acadiana Center for the Arts Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Musical Instrument Museum | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Banners Series at McNeese University | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ford Theatre Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Walker Art Center | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jack Music Inc Jack Quartet | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Philadelphia Chamber Music Society | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ohio State University Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Magic City Smooth Jazz | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cassatt String Quartet | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fundacion De Culebra Inc | $14,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for Puerto Rico Inc | $14,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Duo Kayo | $14,480 | 1 | n/a |
| Lakecia Benjamin and Pursuance | $14,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Purely Blue | $14,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Reut Regev's Rtime (V) | $14,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Gwen Laster | $14,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Alicesun and Commonthread | $14,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Naomi Moon Siegel Ensemble | $14,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Gaea Schell Quartet | $14,300 | 1 | n/a |
| NOUVEAU CLASSICAL PROJECT INC aka Isogram Projects | $14,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Haven Trio | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nanette Cooper-McGuinness | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tak Ensemble LLC | $13,912 | 1 | n/a |
| Shapeshifter Plus Inc | $13,703 | 1 | 7% |
| Chiarina | $13,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fivebyfive Inc | $13,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Sydeboob Duo Inc | $13,480 | 1 | n/a |
| Chronic Duo | $13,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Music Heals US Inc | $13,325 | 2 | 2% |
| The Brass Project | $13,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Idol Beings | $13,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Flyways | $13,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Chamber Music Pittsburgh | $13,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Queens College Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rutgers the State University | $12,788 | 1 | n/a |
| And Play | $12,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Parthenia | $12,480 | 1 | n/a |
| Tessa Souter | $12,200 | 1 | n/a |
| ChamberQUEER Inc | $12,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Telos Consort | $12,110 | 1 | n/a |
| Gotham Early Music Scene Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Longleash | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pathos Trio LLC | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheffield Chamber Players Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Empressa Municipal Cabo Rojo | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bergamot Music Incorporated | $12,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Centro de Economia Creativa Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Whistling Hens | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lucy Yeghiazaryan Quartet (V) | $11,500 | 1 | n/a |
| 222 Healdsburg Performing Arts | $11,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Lev Zhurbin | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arx Music Association | $10,500 | 1 | 28% |
| Shepherdess Duo | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| One Two Press LLC | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Jeong Hyun Kimc 48 St Stephen | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bearthoven | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| World Stage Performance Gallery | $10,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Sputter Box | $10,110 | 1 | n/a |
| Edmonds Center for the Arts | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Healdsburg Jazz Festival Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kayenta Arts Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Arts & Education Continuum Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Epistrophy Arts International | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Simsbury Performing Arts Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arts & Literature Laboratory Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Outpost Productions Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Philadelphia Clef Club for Jazz & Performing Arts Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| McKendree University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Johnson County Community College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Transart and Cultural Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Angel City Arts | $10,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Trinosophes Projects | $10,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Ebony Repertory Theatre Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Summer of the Arts | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Civic Music Association Des Moines | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Live the Spirit Residency | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tennessee Valley Jazz Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Performing Arts (Utaustin) | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Piano Awards Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Dance Hall | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hapco Music Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Williamsburg Music Center Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aizuri Quartet | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Next Stage Arts Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Firstworks | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| University of Utah | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jazzmobile Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jazz Salon | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Counterinduction | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vilar Performing Arts Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indiana State University | $9,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Valley Arts and Entertainment Inc | $9,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Inwood Art Works Inc | $9,500 | 1 | 2% |
| The Louisiana Museum Foundation | $9,100 | 1 | 1% |
| Soapbox Gallery | $9,083 | 1 | n/a |
| Syrian Music Preservation | $8,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Ensemble Decipher | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Da Capo Chamber Players Inc | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Berkshires Jazz Inc | $8,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Adelante Winds | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland Conservatory of Music | $7,405 | 1 | 1% |
| Dara Hankins & Kyle Walker Duo | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bowery Trio | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Lilac 94 | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Cramer Quartet | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Lotus Chamber Music Collective | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Third Sound | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fifth House Ensemble | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Da Camera Society of Texas | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Great Falls Symphony Assoc Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Calliope Brass Music Association Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Continuum Culture & Arts Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Castle of Our Skins Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chamber Music Hawaii | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Clefworks Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Rebirth Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Depauw University | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Larkspur Reed Trio formerly Chione Quintet | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Quintango Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Quad City Arts Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Seal Bay Festival | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Juneau Jazz & Classics | $6,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Lotus Chamber Music Collective | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Chamber Music Detroit | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Friends of Chamber Music | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| University of Texas | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Chamber Music America Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 108.
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.
New Music USA IncNY74.6× affinity39 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: New Music USA Inc · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc · Albertine Foundation · Western States Arts Federation
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.
About Chamber Music America Inc
- How much does Chamber Music America Inc give?
- Chamber Music America Inc reported 36 itemized grants totaling $554,800, out of $1,278,261 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chamber Music America Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Community Improvement (2%), Religion (0%).
- Who are Chamber Music America Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arts for Art Inc ($60k), Unheard-Of Ensemble ($54k), Painted Bride Art Center Inc ($47k).
- Does Chamber Music America Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chamber Music America Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Music USA Inc, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP, Mid Atlantic Arts Inc.
- Where is Chamber Music America Inc based?
- Chamber Music America Inc is based in NY.
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