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Chamber Music America Inc

Chamber music america's mission is to develop, support, and strengthen the chamber music community.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.4MCommunity Improvement$69kReligion$11kScience & Tech$10kEmployment$6kEducation$6k
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $554,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,278,261 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $723,461 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $527k
$10,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TAK ENSEMBLE$20,000
SOUNDBOX VENTURES INC$20,000
ALICIA WALLER FRENTE LLC$20,000
SYLVAN WINDS$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAPCO MUSIC FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
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
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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 41 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
188

Total granted

$1.2M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $465k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AF
    ARTS FOR ART INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +14%
  • UE
    UNHEARD-OF ENSEMBLE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +16%
  • CI
    CAPITALBOP INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +130% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • II
    INFRASOUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $44k
  • LI
    LONGLEASH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $42k
  • ST
    SAMUEL TORRES GROUP
    one grant, 2022 · $37k
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
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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2
BlackBox Ensemble Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
3
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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4
Vanguard Concerts
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5
Constellation Performing Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Foundation for Modern Opera
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7
Chicago Wind Symphony
Arts & Culture
8
Cantata Profana Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
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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10
Arion Chamber Music Inc

Present compelling chamber music performances.

Arts & Culture
11
Rising Jazz Stars
Arts & Culture
12
Philharmonia Northwest

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Coast Percussion Nfp; 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.
04the grantee network

140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
135/140
Grantees still filing
98/140
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+109 more: $2,191,740 · Other+109 moreARTS FOR ART INC: $59,664 · Arts & CultureUNHEARD-OF ENSEMBLE: $54,210 · Arts & Culture+76 more: $1,499,283 · Arts & Culture+76 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,250 · EducationMcKendree University: $10,000 · EducationJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationBLUES TO GREEN INC: $31,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC: $14,750 · Community ImprovementCENTRO DE ECONOMIA CREATIVA INC: $12,000 · Community ImprovementIsham Park Restoration Program 1970: $30,000 · EnvironmentNOVA CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $17,000 · ReligionSIMSBURY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,191,740Arts & Culture$1,613,157Education$86,250Community Improvement$57,750Environment$30,000Youth Development$20,000Religion$17,000Philanthropy$10,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARTS FOR ART INC: $59,664 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetUNHEARD-OF ENSEMBLE: $54,210 over 3y, 21% of budgetPAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC: $47,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCAPITALBOP INC: $45,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC: $41,675 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAKROPOLIS QUINTET INC: $41,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetStanford Jazz Workshop: $41,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEKMELES INC: $33,300 over 2y, 68% of budgetBLUES TO GREEN INC: $31,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetWESTERN WIND VOCAL ENSEMBLE INC: $30,880 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetNORTHWEST NEW MEXICO ARTS COUNCIL: $30,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetGALLUPARTS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetIsham Park Restoration Program 1970: $30,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetFRICTION PERFORMING ARTS: $28,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $27,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOSTON MUSICA VIVA INC: $27,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetElastic Arts Foundation: $27,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetRedwood Jazz Alliance: $27,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetTHE LUIS A FERRE FOUNDATION INC: $26,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQUINTET OF THE AMERICAS INC: $26,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetThe Jazz Bakery Performance Space: $26,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSylvan Winds Inc: $26,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE MYRNA LOY: $26,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNameless Sound: $26,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetHALLWALLS INC: $26,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE ARTS LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN: $26,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Jose Jazz: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROOMFUL OF TEETH VOCAL ARTS PROJECT: $23,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTALEA ENSEMBLE INC: $23,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetEastSide Arts Alliance: $22,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEarshot Jazz Society of Seattle: $21,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDecoda Inc: $20,750 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetHOT SUMMER JAZZ FESTIVAL: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTAK ENSEMBLE MUSIC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW MUSIC INSTITUTE OF KANSAS CITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetSOUNDBOX VENTURES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDC JAZZ FESTIVAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNOVA CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHIRD COAST PERCUSSION NFP: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCORTEZ CENTER INC DBA CORTEZ CULTURAL CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $18,900 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $18,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDEL SOL PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATION: $18,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetAMHERST GLEBE ARTS RESPONSE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetINDO AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL INC: $17,500 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

  • 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 GALLUPARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Isham Park Restoration Program 1970 ↗
  • Who funds FRICTION PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MUSICA VIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds Elastic Arts Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Redwood Jazz Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THE LUIS A FERRE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 IncThe Aaron Copland Fun…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Amphion Foundatio…Ann & Gordon Getty Fo…Doris Duke Charitable…The Howard Gilman Fou…New England Foundatio…The Fan Fox and Lesli…Lower Manhattan Cultu…Albertine FoundationWestern States Arts F…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chamber Music America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chamber Music America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 259 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home