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Harper House Music Foundation Inc

Rooted in the belief that music is a vital and universal source of connection, joy, and meaning, harper house music foundation (hhmf) seeks to be an agent of change by facilitating efforts that help artists share their work, lead stable and healthy lives, and preserve their unique legacies.

$357k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $128k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC$125,000
AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$50,000
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE$50,000
NEAL CASAL MUSIC FOUNDATION$35,000
RIVERFEST FPS INC$25,000
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION$20,000
UNMANAGEABLE$17,750
BACKLINE CARE INC$15,000
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC$15,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC: $15k → 16%RIVERFEST FPS INC: $25k → 9%NEAL CASAL MUSIC FOUNDATION: $35k → 16%CITY PARKS FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC: $125k → 15%BACKLINE CARE INC: $15k → 12%UNMANAGEABLE: $18k → 14%CHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $50k → 14%AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%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 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.

1
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
2
The Sergio Franchi Music Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Conservation Music
Arts & Culture
4
Burnett Music Foundation
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5
City of Chicago Pipe Band

Public music performance. maintain a pipe band for public music performance

Arts & Culture
6
Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music
Arts & Culture
7
Musicians Foundation Inc

The musician's foundation fosters interest and advances the condition and social welfare of professional musicians and provides voluntary aid and assistance to them and their families in case of need.

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8
Fulcrum Point New Music Project

Dedicated to champion diverse new music, present multi-media performances, generate educational programs and commission of innovative works.

Arts & Culture
9
Groundup Music Foundation Inc

The GroundUP Music Foundation supports up-and-coming as well as established musicians through performance and other opportunities, and provides educational opportunities and resources including masterclasses and workshops, mentorships,…

Arts & Culture
10
Northsouth Consonance Inc

North/south consonance, inc. has as its mission the promotion, performance and recording of music by american and latin american composers.

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11
Foundation for Modern Opera
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12
Music Matters Fund Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc; the most unlike its peers is Backline Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INCCHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATREAMERICANA MUSIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICANA MUSIC FOUNDATIONUNMANAGEABLE: $17,750 · Arts & CultureUNMANAGEABLENeal Casal Music Foundation Inc: $35,000 · OtherNeal Casal …RIVERFEST FPS INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $15,000 · EducationBACKLINE CARE INC: $15,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$242,750Other$35,000Environment$25,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Education$15,000Health$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC: $125,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICANA MUSIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRIVERFEST FPS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNMANAGEABLE: $17,750 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACKLINE CARE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of 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 · 0–20%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Harper House Music Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Harper House Music Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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