California · Public charity
Music Center Foundation
The mission of MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION is to provide endowment support to the music center performing arts center of los angeles county, its education and artistic programs and resident companies through planned giving fundraising and asset management.
- $8.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,462,035
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,199,098
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $314M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Music Center Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $8.1M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $9.0M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $8.2M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $25M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $7.4M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $7.6M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $7.8M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $7.2M | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $47,864,552 | 9 | 13% |
| Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County | $13,736,448 | 9 | 3% |
| Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles | $12,859,588 | 9 | 9% |
| Los Angeles Opera Company | $10,777,168 | 9 | 4% |
| Los Angeles Master Chorale Association | $2,290,007 | 9 | 4% |
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: Jerry & Terri Kohl Family Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Music Center Foundation
- How much does Music Center Foundation give?
- Music Center Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $8,053,861 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Music Center Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
- Who are Music Center Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association ($48M), Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County ($14M), Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles ($13M).
- Does Music Center Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Music Center Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jerry & Terri Kohl Family Foundation, The J Paul Getty Trust, Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw.
- Where is Music Center Foundation based?
- Music Center Foundation is based in CA.
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