Tennessee · Public charity
Country Music Association Inc
1. Heighten awareness and grow the business of country music.2. Serve as the information and communication center for industry and consumer trends.3. Provide a forum for industry leadership to advance country music.4. Recognize excellence in the industry.5. Develop ongoing industry and consumer research with the goal of improving…
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,082,459
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $133M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Country Music Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $3.4M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $3.1M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $4.2M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $1.5M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $595k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $4.6M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $3.9M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $3.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cma Foundation | $21,629,816 | 8 | 85% |
| Country Music Foundation Inc | $985,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Comic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief US | $400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Country Radio Broadcasters Inc | $346,000 | 8 | 5% |
| State of Tennessee | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce | $210,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Leadership Music | $193,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Mtheory Nashville LLC | $80,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Nashville Entrepreneur Center | $75,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Nashville Songwriters Association International | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cma Foundation | $21,629,816 | 8 | 85% |
| Country Music Foundation Inc | $985,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Comic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief US | $400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Country Radio Broadcasters Inc | $346,000 | 8 | 5% |
| State of Tennessee | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce | $210,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Leadership Music | $193,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Mtheory Nashville LLC | $80,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Nashville Entrepreneur Center | $75,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Nashville Songwriters Association International | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Board of the University of Alabama | $36,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sexual Assault Center | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tkdubs Productions | $30,000 | 2 | 56% |
| museSalon Collaborative | $25,000 | 1 | 48% |
| Possibilities Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| KultureCity | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Newport Festivals Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Country Music Association Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Country Music Association Inc
- How much does Country Music Association Inc give?
- Country Music Association Inc reported 9 grants totaling $3,397,491 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Country Music Association Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Community Improvement (1%), Health (1%).
- Who are Country Music Association Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Cma Foundation ($22M), Country Music Foundation Inc ($985k), Comic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief US ($400k).
- Does Country Music Association Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Country Music Association Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Country Music Association Inc based?
- Country Music Association Inc is based in TN.
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