New Mexico · Private foundation
Music Is the Way Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Music Is the Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $2k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $14k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Arts & Culture$40kEducation$1k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kayenta Arts Foundation | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Music Center | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Ellington Fund | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.
About Music Is the Way Inc
- How much does Music Is the Way Inc give?
- Music Is the Way Inc reported 1 grants totaling $1,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Music Is the Way Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Education (2%).
- Who are Music Is the Way Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kayenta Arts Foundation ($18k), Community Music Center ($6k), The Ellington Fund ($1k).
- Does Music Is the Way Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Music Is the Way Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Music Is the Way Inc based?
- Music Is the Way Inc is based in NM.
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