· Public charity
Grammy Museum Foundation Inc
The grammy museum is a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating and exploring music from yesterday and today to inspire the music of tomorrow through exhibits, education, grants, preservation initiatives, and public programming.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $125,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $271,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $146,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| FORGOTTEN FUTURES FUND INC | $20,000 |
| LOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS INC | $15,000 |
| SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| COUNTY OF MEMPHIS SHELBY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $9,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $60k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: MUSIC PRESERVATION IMPLEMENTATION GRANT · SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH GRANT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Grammy Museum Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 30% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- CMCOUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +80%
- AFArhoolie Foundation3× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +558%
- BSBERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXASone grant, 2024 · $20k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OREGONone grant, 2020 · $20k
- ETEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Arhoolie Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 82 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 COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arhoolie Foundation ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN FUTURES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
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: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Round It Up America Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Share Our Strength · Project Lead the Way Inc · Good Sports Inc · Digital Promise Global · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · The George W Bush Foundation · Undies for Everyone · American Theatre Wing Inc
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 Grammy Museum Foundation Inc 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.
- Newark Public Radio Inc — 51% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
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.