How much does Colburn Foundation give?

Colburn Foundation reported 102 grants totaling $9,234,073 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 86 and 89 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Colburn Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (94%), Education (5%), Religion (1%).

Who are Colburn Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Colburn School ($17M), Los Angeles Opera Company ($3.9M), Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ($3.4M).

Does Colburn Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Colburn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Colburn Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.

Where is Colburn Foundation based?

Colburn Foundation is based in CA.

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Colburn Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 102
Grants FY2024: 89
Organizations funded FY2023: 25%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $4,390,473
Organizations funded a year: 86 to 89; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $204M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Colburn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $689k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther

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
FY2024still arriving	97	$8.9M	18%
FY2023	89	$8.6M	25%
FY2022	89	$9.0M	12%
FY2021	86	$8.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$34MEducation$1.9MReligion$216kYouth Development$111kHealth$38kPhilanthropy$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Colburn School	$16,887,959	4	7%
Los Angeles Opera Company	$3,856,500	4	3%
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association	$3,378,000	4	1%
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association	$1,287,250	4	7%
Musica Angelica	$1,139,500	4	77%
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc	$762,500	2	11%
Idyllwild Arts Foundation	$261,250	4	0%
Neighborhood Music School Association	$235,500	4	9%
Philharmonic Society of Orange County	$217,500	4	2%
Pacific Symphony	$205,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Colburn Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Colburn School	$16,887,959	4	7%
Los Angeles Opera Company	$3,856,500	4	3%
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association	$3,378,000	4	1%
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association	$1,287,250	4	7%
Musica Angelica	$1,139,500	4	77%
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc	$762,500	2	11%
Idyllwild Arts Foundation	$261,250	4	0%
Neighborhood Music School Association	$235,500	4	9%
Philharmonic Society of Orange County	$217,500	4	2%
Pacific Symphony	$205,000	4	0%
Music Academy of the West	$193,750	4	1%
California Institute of the Arts	$185,000	2	0%
Marlboro School of Music Inc	$172,500	4	1%
Renaissance Arts Academy	$163,250	4	1%
Pasadena Conservatory of Music	$157,500	4	1%
Segerstrom Center for the Arts	$116,250	4	0%
Young Concert Artists Inc	$111,250	4	1%
Saint James Episcopal Church	$110,000	2	n/a
Delirium Musicum	$106,250	4	10%
St James Episcopal Church a Corp	$105,000	2	n/a
Los Angeles Children's Chorus	$105,000	4	2%
Pacific Opera Project	$97,050	4	5%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$96,250	4	0%
American Youth Symphony Inc	$95,000	3	4%
Long Beach Symphony Association	$90,500	4	1%
The New School	$88,750	4	0%
New West Symphony Association	$83,750	4	1%
The Music Guild	$83,500	4	34%
Pacific Chorale	$80,250	4	1%
Long Beach Opera	$80,000	3	2%
Los Angeles Music and Art School	$69,250	3	4%
Monday Evening Concerts	$68,750	4	13%
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County	$67,000	4	0%
Madison Project	$66,250	3	1%
Sounds Like La	$64,500	4	6%
Occidental College	$62,500	4	0%
Vox Femina Los Angeles	$54,500	4	4%
Elemental Music	$52,500	4	3%
Harmony Project	$52,500	4	0%
California Baptist University	$51,750	4	0%
Etm-La Inc	$51,000	4	1%
Inner City Youth Orchrstra of Los Angeles Inc	$50,750	4	2%
Songfest Inc	$50,000	2	6%
Ojai Festivals Ltd	$50,000	1	2%
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc	$47,500	4	0%
Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association	$46,750	2	6%
Young Musicians Foundation	$45,500	4	1%
Grand Performances	$45,000	3	1%
Fulcrum Arts	$42,500	2	1%
Save the Music Foundation	$40,000	1	0%
The Pasadena Symphony Association	$40,000	4	0%
Sol-La Music Academy Inc	$40,000	2	5%
Jacaranda	$38,000	3	n/a
Chorus America	$36,250	4	1%
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra	$36,250	4	14%
Kontrapunktus Neo-Baroque Chamber Orchestra	$35,750	4	17%
Taos School of Music Inc	$35,750	4	2%
Camerata Pacifica	$35,250	4	1%
Center Stage Strings	$34,250	4	56%
Street Symphony Project Inc	$32,750	3	3%
Santa Monica Symphony Association	$32,500	4	5%
Dream Orchestra Inc	$32,000	2	4%
The Theatre at Boston Court	$27,375	4	1%
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk	$25,500	2	n/a
Olympia Phiharmonic Society	$25,250	4	27%
Riverside Community College District Foundation	$24,500	2	0%
National Children's Chorus	$24,250	4	0%
Verdi Chorus co Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt	$22,500	3	6%
Baroque Music Fesitival Corona del Mar	$22,500	2	5%
South Bay Chamber Music Society INC	$22,250	4	13%
Guild Opera Company Inc	$19,625	4	9%
Redlands Symphony Association	$19,250	4	1%
Casa Romantica Cultural Center & Gardens	$18,000	4	1%
Salastina	$15,000	1	3%
Musicians At Play Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Los Angeles City Elementary Schools Music Association Inc	$14,000	2	n/a
Compton Conservatory of Music	$13,000	2	n/a
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts	$11,250	2	0%
The Opera League of Los Angeles	$11,000	1	4%
Glendale Youth Symphony	$11,000	2	n/a
Urban Voices Project	$11,000	2	1%
The Santa Monica College Foundation	$11,000	3	0%
West Los Angeles Symphony Inc	$10,000	2	42%
St Matthews Music Guild	$10,000	1	2%
The Opera Buffs Inc Co Mona Lands	$10,000	2	11%
Calder Performing Arts Organization	$8,000	2	n/a
La's Best	$7,000	2	0%
Whittier College	$5,000	1	0%
Sierra Madre Playhouse	$5,000	1	0%
Arrowhead Arts Association	$3,600	4	1%
Empowering Arts	$3,000	1	n/a
Pacific Vocal Series	$2,500	1	n/a
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels	$1,250	1	n/a
Los Robles Master Chorale	$1,250	1	2%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Colburn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 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 82.

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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 Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA52.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts · The Annenberg Foundation · Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · The Rose Hills Foundation · D'Addario Foundation Inc

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.

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About Colburn Foundation

How much does Colburn Foundation give?: Colburn Foundation reported 102 grants totaling $9,234,073 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 86 and 89 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Colburn Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (94%), Education (5%), Religion (1%).
Who are Colburn Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Colburn School ($17M), Los Angeles Opera Company ($3.9M), Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ($3.4M).
Does Colburn Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Colburn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Colburn Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
Where is Colburn Foundation based?: Colburn Foundation is based in CA.