· Public charity
Musical Instrument Museum
The MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM (mim) enriches our world by collecting, preserving, and making accessible an astonishing variety of musical instruments and performance videos from every country in the world.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACT ONE | $12,800 |
| SCOTTSDALE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $6,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 +49% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 1 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PUPEORIA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT3× · 2018–2022 · $49k
- CUCHANDLER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTR5× · 2018–2023 · $45k
- DUDYSART UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT4× · 2018–2023 · $44k
Funded once
- MPMESA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $22k
- IEISSAC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $21k
- GPGILBERT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $18k
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.
Commitment to development of the whole child by providing students a well-rounded, individualized education and development experience that is grounded on Montessori principles
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
To provide a safe, positive environment for all students with a strong focus on academic success, student leadership, parental involvement, and community partnership.
Arizona ball charter schools provides a personalized education to all students emphasizing comprehensive academic excellence in a safe, nurturing environment through partnering parents, students and staff.
Education
Montessori based school with the purpose to provide quality education to students in grades kindergarten through 8th. operates as a charter school under a contract with the arizona state board for charter schools.
Operation of a private school
Education of students with autism and related disorders
The Schools mission is to produce highly motivated students who will develop a pasion for life-long learning through the use of hands-on instruction, as an interdisciplinary, accelerated school that utilizes a proven, succesful curriculum…
To utilize a family centric model to enlist the support of families in the education and upbringing of the whole child- academic & intellectual, recreational & cultural, character & leadership, emotional, physical & mental health- to…
Charter school
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 339 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.
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: Arizona Community Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Arizona Diamondbacks Foundationinc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Round It Up America Inc · Share Our Strength · Valley of the Sun United Way · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · American Express Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Kids Need to Read · Thunderbirds Charities
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Musical Instrument Museum funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Musical Instrument Museum. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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