· Private foundation
Graham Music Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
| ALLENTOWN BAND INC | $5,000 |
| YOUNG PEOPLES PHILHARMONIC LEHIGH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK | $2,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
| CEDAR CREST COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY ITALIAN AMERICAN BAND | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CMCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $172k · revenue +18%
- ABALLENTOWN BAND INC7× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +32%
- ASALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TCTHE CAMERATA SINGERSone grant, 2022 · $10k
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Performs classical music for the community
The organization supports the artistic growth of young musicians from a diverse student population in the delaware valley by providing opportunities for high-level ensemble experience in a supportive educational environment.
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
Promote quality music education
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.
Offering Professional Music Concerts
Musical proformance education.
To engage our community in a life more beautiful through the shared experience and transformative impact of chamber music, by arranging diverse and compelling programs by exceptional artists at affordable prices, and by presenting new…
Presentation of symphony orchestra and chamber music concerts benefiting 50-700 patrons per event
It is the mission of the pittsburgh symphony orchestra to engage, enrich, and inspire through unparalleled live musical experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Pennsylvania Philharmonic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN BAND INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SATORI LTD ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Amaranth Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · The Century Fund Trust · Flach Music Fund · Ppl Foundation · The Presser Foundation · Seruga R Char · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Graham Music Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.