· Private foundation
D'Addario Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k197 grants · $418k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL- PUENTE LEARNING CENTER | $20,000 |
| ACCENT PONTIAC | $20,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL- LONG BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL- LAKE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| THE PEOPLE'S MUSIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,077 |
| AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR | $4,735 |
| ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $4,725 |
| CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER SCHOOL | $4,725 |
| WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $4,552 |
| HARMONY PROGRAM | $4,552 |
| THE PEOPLE'S MUSIC SCHOOL | $4,552 |
| SISTEMA TORONTO ACADEMY | $4,464 |
| THE ROOTS OF MUSIC | $4,352 |
| WHIN MUSIC COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $4,352 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
334 repeat relationships: 146 still active in FY2024, 188 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +94%
- TPThe People's Music School5× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +111%
- HPHarmony Project2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- NFNational Federation of State High School Associationsgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +42%
- C4CSULB 49ER FOUNDATION- IMC AWARDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- PMPEOPLES MUSIC SCHOOL-EVANSTON ELone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
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.
At MusicMi we set a mission for ourselves to provide aspiring young musicians from across the country with an opportunity to study with world-class artists and to provide our students with a music education of the highest artistic…
String Insiders' mission is to inspire violin, viola, and cello students through online and in-person connections to teachers, peers, and a wealth of information that challenges and encourages them in their growth as a musician and helps…
To initiate and develop musci education programs for Hermosa Beach youth.
Music can transform lives especially for kids growing up in difficult circumstances. Music Instruments N Kids Hands mission is to introduce students to science technology engineering arts and math STEAM through an interactive and digital…
Where Students come to receive a world class education with music at its core.
We give private music lessons and classes to students, especially children, in our area. We then afford these students opportunities to perform in public to share their music with the community, friends, and family. This year we have…
Jeunes Virtuoses de New York" (JVNY) is an ensemble of exceptionally accomplished young musicians who perform on both sides of the Atlantic both as a string camerata, and in various chamber music configurations. Our mission is to transform…
Education in music
To provide comprehensive music education as a critical component of children's integral education, fostering social and emotional skills and inspiring a lifelong love of learning.
The Charleston Academy of Music is committed to providing access to exceptional music education, performance and community outreach to all, regardless of age, skill, gender, ethnicity or income.
How this is measured
422 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. 422 of the 703 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc · Find Your Light Foundation · The Carnegie Hall Corporation · The Cma Foundation · Les Paul Foundation · The Mockingbird Foundation · Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation · Los Angeles Philharmonic Association · Sheila Fortune Foundation Inc · American Symphony Orchestra League D/B/A League of American Orchestras · The Presser Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization D'Addario Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from D'Addario Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 18 Degrees Inc: 60% of income from government
- Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
- Catamount Film & Arts Company: 27% of income from government
- Music Haven Inc: 15% of income from government
- Project Music Inc: 14% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
- My Voice Music Inc: 11% of income from government
- Boston Music Project Inc: 9% of income from government
- Union City Music Project Inc: 8% of income from government
- Musiconnects Inc: 5% of income from government
- Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc: 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc: 4% of income from government
- Boston String Academy Inc: 3% of income from government
- Intempo Organization Inc: 2% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc: 2% of income from government
- El Sistema Oklahoma Inc: 2% of income from government
- Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
- Young Musicians Unite Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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