· Private foundation
Music Matters Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $222k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $742k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARLOR ROOM | $50,000 |
| ROOTS MUSIC PROJECT FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| BLUE JAY LISTENING ROOM | $40,000 |
| LOST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| DRKMTTR COLLECTIVE LLC | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| GRAND VISION FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| LA PENA CULTURAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE INC | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| WSLR INC | $30,000 |
| KS KLUB LLC | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k 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
- CLCAFFE LENA INC3× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +72%
- TJTHE JAZZ GALLERY3× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +103%
- TITHELOSTCHURCHORG INC5× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +248%
Funded once
- SSUBTERRANEANone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TLTATU LLCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- BDBOGEY DEPOT INCone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Foster professional development of creative artists
Entertainment
Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…
TURNmusic supports innovative, living music creators and celebrates their craft. From chamber music and improvisation to jazz, electronics and more, our concerts are built with a commitment to representation, diversity and originality.…
Music & arts performances
Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.
To promote and produce Public Art for the enjoyment of the community and for the economic benefit of the community.
The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…
Provided arts programming including performances and artist support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Traditions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dance Elixir. 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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 215 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CAFFE LENA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAZZ GALLERY ↗
- Who funds THELOSTCHURCHORG INC ↗
- Who funds The Parlor Room ↗
- Who funds ISSUE PROJECT ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS MUSIC PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOCOLATE CHURCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Artwerks ↗
- Who funds GRAND VISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cactus Plus Corporation ↗
- Who funds ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE ↗
- Who funds La Pea Cultural Center 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: 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
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 Music Matters Fund Inc 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.
- 47 Palmer Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Parlor Room — 0% 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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