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Country Music Association Inc

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$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3.1M
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$23MCommunity Improvement$365kHealth$340kPublic Safety & Disaster$200kEducation$36kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.1M
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$133M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CMA FOUNDATION$3,082,459
COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM$130,000
COUNTRY RADIO BROADCASTERS$50,000
NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$30,000
MTHEORY NASHVILLE LLC$30,000
LEADERSHIP MUSIC$25,000
TKDUBS PRODUCTION$15,000
KULTURECITY$10,000
NSAI$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KULTURECITY: $10k → 16%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 11 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$24M
$331k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+30%

Still filing today

91%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CMA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $22M · revenue +48% · 85% of their budget
  • CM
    COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $985k · revenue +80%
  • NA
    NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SO
    STATE OF TENNESSEE
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • BO
    BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
    one grant, 2024 · $36k
  • MC
    museSalon Collaborativegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +30% · 48% of their budget
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.

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Nashville Blues and Roots Alliance
Arts & Culture
2
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…

Arts & Culture
3
The Consortium Mmt

To develop a viable music industry in memphis for the future by providing a structured learning environment to enrich and equip our talents with proven tools to build the next generation of successful music professionals. the consortium…

Arts & Culture
4
Columbus Music Commission

To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.

Community Improvement
5
Nashville Songwriters Foundation

To educate, archive and celebrate songwriting that is uniquely associated with the nashville songwriting community.

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6
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
7
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
8
Music Business Association

Trade organization music business does research, holds seminars and has a convention each year for their members

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9
Girls Write Nashville

Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…

Arts & Culture
10
Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau

The mission of the NCVB is to maximize the economic contribution of the hospitality industry to the total community by developing and marketing Nashville as a premier domestic and international destination for visitors. This is the second…

Community Improvement
11
Nashville Technology Council

Ntc mission is to advance the diverse technology ecosystem by connecting and promoting members, attracting, growing and retaining tech talent, and providing opportunities to reinvest in the greater nashville community.

Community Improvement
12
Nashville Public Media Inc

Nashville banner is a locally owned, community supported, civic news organization. we exist to empower the people of nashville to make informed decisions by providing non-partisan journalism from an independent, nonprofit newsroom. we are…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Country Music Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tkdubs Productions. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CMA FOUNDATION: $21,629,816 · PhilanthropyTHE CMA FOUNDATION+1 more: $400,000 · PhilanthropyCountry Radio Broadcasters Inc: $346,000 · OtherSTATE OF TENNESSEE: $250,000 · OtherNASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $210,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP MUSIC: $193,000 · OtherMTHEORY NASHVILLE LLC: $80,000 · OtherTHE NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER: $75,000 · OtherNASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL: $65,000 · Other+2 more: $46,000 · OtherCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $985,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $65,000 · Arts & CultureSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $30,000 · HealthKultureCity: $10,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$22,029,816Other$1,265,000Arts & Culture$1,050,000Health$30,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CMA FOUNDATION: $21,629,816 over 8y, 85% of budgetCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $985,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US: $400,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCountry Radio Broadcasters Inc: $346,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetNASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $210,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP MUSIC: $193,000 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetTHE NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER: $75,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL: $65,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTKDUBS PRODUCTIONS: $30,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetmuseSalon Collaborative: $25,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetPOSSIBILITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetKultureCity: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 THE CMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ↗
  • Who funds Country Radio Broadcasters Inc ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds THE NASHVILLE ENTREPRENEUR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TKDUBS PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds museSalon Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds KultureCity ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT FESTIVALS 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.

The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Country Music Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Country Music Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 17 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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