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Louis Armstrong Educational Foundat
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $830k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM | $210,000 |
| THE LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $148,775 |
| JAZZMOBILE INC | $125,000 |
| QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $121,090 |
| LOUIS SATCHMO ARMSTRONG SUMMER | $100,000 |
| MT SINAI BETH ISRAEL - LOUIS | $75,000 |
| ASCAP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JAZZ POWER INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| MIND-BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS CENTER | $20,000 |
| SEATTLE JAZZED | $15,000 |
| HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $15,000 |
| LOUIS ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $15,000 |
| NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO | $15,000 |
| ONE CITY AT VENDERCOOK COLLEGE | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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
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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k 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
- LALOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM7× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +345% · 31% of their budget
- JIJAZZMOBILE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $655k · revenue +242% · 26% of their budget
- AFASCAP FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $560k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- RTRISING TIDE MUSIC & ARTS INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +50%
- MUMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +541%
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.
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…
The mission of third street music school settlement is to provide access to music and dance education to new yorkers of all ages.
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
Kaufman music center stimulates appreciation of and participation in music through music performance and education in ways that awaken creativity, advance innovation, and create a sense of wonder among performers, students, teachers, and…
Preservation and Promotion of Jazz Music through educational activities live concerts and events and maintains a large archive
Musical Education and Training
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and the most unlike its peers is Young Sounds of Arizona Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 50 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 LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JAZZMOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds ASCAP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ DRAMA PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds MIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HERBERT H LEHMAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Seattle JazzED ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · West Harlem Development Corporation · Altman Foundation · D'Addario Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Joyce & George Wein Foundation Inc · Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation · The Herb Alpert Foundation · Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation
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 Louis Armstrong Educational Foundat 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
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% 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.
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