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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$88M
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,462,035
Median grant
1
States reached
$314M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION$3,199,098
CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES INC$1,613,082
THE MUSIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$1,462,035
LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY$1,416,760
LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE$362,886
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $21.1M → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $3.8M → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $3.6M → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $3.5M → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $3.2M → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $3.2M → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $3.2M → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $3.1M → 14%LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $3.1M → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1.9M → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1.9M → 14%CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1.6M → 14%CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1.6M → 14%CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1.6M → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1.5M → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1.5M → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1.5M → 14%CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1.5M → 14%CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1.4M → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1.4M → 14%LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $1.4M → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1.4M → 14%CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1.4M → 14%LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $1.4M → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1.3M → 14%CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1.3M → 14%LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $1.3M → 14%THE MUSIC CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $1.3M → 14%CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1.3M → 14%CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1.2M → 14%LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $1.2M → 14%LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $1.2M → 14%LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $1.2M → 14%LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $1.2M → 14%LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $1.0M → 14%LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $929k → 14%LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: $400k → 14%LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: $363k → 14%LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: $275k → 14%LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: $228k → 14%LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: $225k → 14%LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE: $215k → 14%LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $200k → 14%LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $193k → 14%LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $192k → 14%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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $47,864,552 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATIONPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $13,736,448 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTYCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $12,859,588 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $10,777,168 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY+1 more: $2,290,007 · Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture$87,527,763

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $47,864,552 over 9y, 13% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $13,736,448 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES: $12,859,588 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $10,777,168 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $2,290,007 over 9y, 4.5% 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 LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Jerry & Terri Kohl Fa…The J Paul Getty TrustStern Sidney Memorial…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…California Community …National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jerry & Terri Kohl Family FoundationDE13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 5 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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