· Private foundation
Musicians Emergency Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CT | $17,166 |
| ROOSEVELT ISLAND CONCERTS | $16,000 |
| ARCO COLLABORATIVE INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRAGMENTS PROJECT - WEILERSTEIN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $650 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% 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.
24 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2019 · $111k
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC3× · 2018–2020 · $94k · revenue +63%
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2017–2021 · $84k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $56k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $37k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $17k
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.
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…
Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…
The organization provides numerous performance engagements to musicians in the form of recitals and community engagement programs across the country, and is actively involved in music education workshops in public schools.
Our mission is to contribute to the cultural fabric of new york city through public performance of both classical and contemporary choral works at the highest musical standards. we are committed to the musical development of members,…
The mission of the organization is to present programming by outstanding international, national and local early music groups in an acoustically and aesthetically superb setting.
Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…
Promote Contemporary Choral Music
We advance awareness of art song Western classical music through live performances digital performances the commission of new works and the dissemination of art song scholarship on the art song Magazine website wwwsparksandwirycriesorg…
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 77 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
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Musicians Emergency Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Musicians Emergency Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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