· Private foundation
Graham Music Fund
Its FY2025 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YOUNG PEOPLES PHILHARMONIC LEHIGH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| ALLENTOWN BAND INC | $5,000 |
| CEDAR CREST COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY ITALIAN AMERICAN BAND | $2,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK | $2,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +32% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Graham Music Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Graham Music Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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