California · Private foundation
Music Matters Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2024
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 70
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 26
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 88% of the organizations Music Matters Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $707k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 59 | $1.0M | 56% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $797k | 88% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $732k | 79% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $1.1M | 63% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $483k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caffe Lena Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Jazz Gallery | $64,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Thelostchurchorg Inc | $62,000 | 5 | 6% |
| The Parlor Room | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Issue Project Room Inc | $54,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Roots Music Project Foundation | $51,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Chocolate Church Arts Center | $50,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Artwerks | $44,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Grand Vision Foundation | $43,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Cactus Plus Corporation | $42,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 171 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Music Matters Fund Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Chamber Music America Inc · New Music USA Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Music Matters Fund Inc
- How much does Music Matters Fund Inc give?
- Music Matters Fund Inc reported 59 grants totaling $1,013,411 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 70 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Music Matters Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Community Improvement (5%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are Music Matters Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Caffe Lena Inc ($80k), The Jazz Gallery ($64k), Thelostchurchorg Inc ($62k).
- Does Music Matters Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Music Matters Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Music Matters Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Atlantic Arts Inc, Chamber Music America Inc, New Music USA Inc.
- Where is Music Matters Fund Inc based?
- Music Matters Fund Inc is based in CA.
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