· Private foundation
Music Matters Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DRKMTTR COLLECTIVE LLC | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| LOST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| LA PENA CULTURAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| GRAND VISION FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| ONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE INC | $35,000 |
| JALOPY THEATRE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| WSLR INC | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLCAFFE LENA INC3× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +72%
- TJTHE JAZZ GALLERY3× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +173%
- TITHELOSTCHURCHORG INC5× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +248%
Funded once
- SSUBTERRANEANone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TLTATU LLCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 215 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Music Matters Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Music Matters Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 47 Palmer Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Parlor Room: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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