· Public charity
Chamber Music America Inc
Chamber music america's mission is to develop, support, and strengthen the chamber music community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $554,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,278,261 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $723,461 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $527k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAN PUGACH PLUS ONE MUSIC INC | $37,000 |
| DOUGLAS BEAVERS CIRCLE 9 LLC | $36,000 |
| STEPHEN HARVEY | $35,000 |
| CAMILA BELLO CAMILA CORTINA BELLO | $34,000 |
| BENJAMIN WENDEL WENDEL MUSIC LLC | $33,000 |
| CATRACHA PRODUCTIONS LLC (GINITA Y LA ORQUESTA ESA) | $21,500 |
| SOUNDBOX VENTURES INC | $20,000 |
| SYLVAN WINDS | $20,000 |
| ALICIA WALLER FRENTE LLC | $20,000 |
| TAK ENSEMBLE | $20,000 |
| STELLA HEATH | $19,100 |
| AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET | $18,000 |
| TESSA SOUTER | $12,200 |
| ARX MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $10,500 |
| ONE TWO PRESS LLC | $10,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $465k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFARTS FOR ART INC6× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +14%
- UEUNHEARD-OF ENSEMBLE3× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +16%
- CICAPITALBOP INC4× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +130% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- IIINFRASOUND INCone grant, 2023 · $44k
- LILONGLEASH INCone grant, 2022 · $42k
- STSAMUEL TORRES GROUPone grant, 2022 · $37k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
To present and promote contemporary classical music through innovative, interdisciplinary performances; to support living composers; and to engage diverse audiences through education, collaboration, and community-based programming.…
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…
Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.
Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…
Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.
Present compelling chamber music performances.
Philharmonia Northwest contributes to the vitality of the classical music community in the Pacific Northwest by presenting professional concerts highlighting the diverse past and present repertoire for chamber orchestra. It is also…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Coast Percussion Nfp and the most unlike its peers is Fundacion De Culebra Inc. 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.
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 20 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 140 of the 259 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds ARTS FOR ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNHEARD-OF ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITALBOP INC ↗
- Who funds ARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds AKROPOLIS QUINTET INC ↗
- Who funds Stanford Jazz Workshop ↗
- Who funds EKMELES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUES TO GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WIND VOCAL ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Isham Park Restoration Program 1970 ↗
- Who funds GALLUPARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Elastic Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds Redwood Jazz Alliance ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MUSICA VIVA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUIS A FERRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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.
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- Blues to Green Inc — 12% of income from government
- Roomful of Teeth Vocal Arts Project — 11% of income from government
- Hapco Music Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Project Music Heals Us Inc — 2% of income from government
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 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.