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InterMusic SF

InterMusic SF is dedicated to sustaining and nourishing the Bay Area creative environment by offering dynamic programming and vital resources for music creators and audience members.

$449k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$845kPhilanthropy$15kCommunity Improvement$14kHealth$9k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $39,626, the rows itemized in this filing. The $449,453 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $409,827 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$8,746
Median grant
1
States reached
$811k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZY Violin Inc$24,540
Simon Music Productions Inc$8,746
ArtEco Management Inc$6,340
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Chamber Music Society of San Francisco: $13k → 7%African American Composer Initiative: $25k → 8%Ensemble for These Times: $13k → 10%Nomad Session: $9k → 10%Tahoe Music Alive: $8k → 11%Here Bullet The Film LLC: $18k → 14%GSI Studios LLC: $72k → 17%Latino Music Education Network: $39k → 7%African American Composer Initiative: $11k → 8%Ensemble for These Times: $8k → 10%Amaranth Quartet: $9k → 10%Here Bullet The Film LLC: $9k → 14%GSI Studios LLC: $54k → 17%Quinteto Latino: $35k → 7%Simon Music Productions Inc: $9k → 10%Elevate Ensemble: $6k → 10%GSI Studios LLC: $18k → 17%Quinteto Latino: $22k → 7%Splinter Reeds: $13k → 10%Sonic Forest Productions: $19k → 10%Latino Music Education Network: $19k → 7%Galax Quartet: $6k → 10%Sonic Forest Productions: $14k → 10%Home of United String Ensembles: $13k → 10%Chromatic Community Music Center: $15k → 10%Friction Quartet Ensemble: $11k → 10%Ross McKee Foundation: $15k → 10%Home of United String Ensembles: $11k → 10%Chromatic Community Music Center: $9k → 10%sfSound: $9k → 10%Chromatic Community Music Center: $9k → 10%ArtEco Management Inc: $8k → 10%ArtEco Management Inc: $6k → 10%Lieder Alive: $13k → 10%Lieder Alive: $8k → 10%Golden Gate Park Band: $162k → 10%Golden Gate Park Band: $56k → 10%Golden Gate Park Band: $43k → 10%Classical Revolution: $7k → 10%Young Chamber Musicians: $10k → 10%Classical Revolution: $5k → 10%ZY Violin Inc: $25k → 10%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$741k · 13 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$741k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
0%

Still filing today

15%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GG
    GOLDEN GATE PARK BAND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $260k · revenue +48% · 37% of their budget
  • GS
    GSI Studios LLC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $144k
  • LM
    LATINO MUSIC EDUCATION NETWORK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $57k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROSS MCKEE FOUNDATION FOR THE MUSICAL ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +459% · 48% of their budget
  • SR
    Splinter Reeds
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • CM
    Chamber Music Society of San Francisco
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -92%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 26 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GSI Studios LLC: $144,000 · OtherGSI Studios LLCQuinteto Latino: $56,872 · OtherQuinteto LatinoAfrican American Composer Initiative: $35,650 · OtherAfrican American Composer InitiativeChromatic Community Music Center: $33,372 · OtherChromatic Community Music CenterSonic Forest Productions: $33,000 · OtherSonic Forest ProductionsHere Bullet The Film LLC: $27,580 · OtherZY Violin Inc: $24,540 · OtherHome of United String Ensembles: $24,428 · OtherNANETTE COOPER-MCGUINNESS: $21,418 · OtherLieder Alive: $20,936 · Other+13 more: $131,888 · Other+13 moreGOLDEN GATE PARK BAND: $260,190 · Arts & CultureGOLDEN GATE PARK BANDLATINO MUSIC EDUCATION NETWORK: $57,212 · Arts & CultureLATINO MUSIC EDUCATION NETWORKChamber Music Society of San Francisco: $12,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$553,684Arts & Culture$329,902

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOLDEN GATE PARK BAND: $260,190 over 3y, 37% of budgetLATINO MUSIC EDUCATION NETWORK: $57,212 over 2y, 12% of budgetROSS MCKEE FOUNDATION FOR THE MUSICAL ARTS: $14,720 over 1y, 48% of budgetChamber Music Society of San Francisco: $12,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetTAHOE MUSIC ALIVE: $7,884 over 1y, 10% 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.

  • Who funds GOLDEN GATE PARK BAND ↗
  • Who funds LATINO MUSIC EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds ROSS MCKEE FOUNDATION FOR THE MUSICAL ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Chamber Music Society of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE MUSIC ALIVE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization InterMusic SF funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from InterMusic SF. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to InterMusic SF?

    Find your warmest path to InterMusic SF 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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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