· Private foundation
Harvard Musical Association
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AWARDS GRANTS HENSCHEL GRANTS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AGAWARDS GRANTS HENSCHEL GRANTS2× · 2023–2025 · $18k
FRACTURED ATLAS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +71%- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $4k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $8k
- MFMUSIC FOR FOOD INCone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -42%
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.
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.
Outreach and educational music organization
The LYDIAN QUARTET corporation has been formed for charitable purposes, to promote the educational, cultural and artistic enrichment of the residents of Massachusetts and the United States.
To advance public access to professional orchestral music through free concerts, educational programs, and community engagement, while promoting diverse and underrepresented composers and artists.
The marinus ensemble is a chamber music collective that draws on the best emerging international performers to celebrate the human power of our great chamber music repertoire. at the heart of marinus is a commitment to enliven the audience…
Presenting orchestra classical music to underserved communities. Our mission is to make great music accessible to diverse audiences and to harness the power of music to forge lasting relationships with our community.
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 49 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 FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR FOOD INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Maria Marino Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds CASTLE OF OUR SKINS INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER MUSIC BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds CANTEMUS ↗
- Who funds PALAVER STRINGS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harvard Musical Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harvard Musical Association. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cantemus: 12% of income from government
- Musiconnects Inc: 5% of income from government
- Shelter Music Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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