Massachusetts · Private foundation
Harvard Musical Association
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $23k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations Harvard Musical Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $23k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $17k | 88% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $18k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $11k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $4k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $14k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $14k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $26k | 88% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $9,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Music for Food Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Musiconnects Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Maria Marino Scholarship Fund | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Concert Artists Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Castle of Our Skins Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shelter Music Boston Inc | $4,400 | 1 | 2% |
| Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc | $3,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Cantemus | $2,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Palaver Strings Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Harvard Musical Association
- How much does Harvard Musical Association give?
- Harvard Musical Association reported 7 grants totaling $23,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harvard Musical Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Education (10%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Harvard Musical Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fractured Atlas Inc ($10k), Music for Food Inc ($6k), Musiconnects Inc ($6k).
- Does Harvard Musical Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harvard Musical Association accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harvard Musical Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Harvard Musical Association based?
- Harvard Musical Association is based in MA.
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