· Public charity
Musics Promise Inc
Music's promises is a music industry's social responsibility program, addressing important social issues in the u.s.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $738,791 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $914,891 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $176,100 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $300,000 |
| HOLLER HARM REDUCTION | $108,000 |
| PODER EMMA | $78,000 |
| MUTUAL AID DISASTER RELIEF | $50,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $50,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $35,000 |
| RED RIVER MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| DWYER WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT | $15,568 |
| AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR AUSTIN MUSICIANS | $15,000 |
| YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ROOTS OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| MADE IN NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LEAF GLOBAL ARTS | $7,500 |
| PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
NAMM's mission is to strengthen the music products industry and promote the pleasures and benefits of making music.
We collaborate with organize and build the civic capacity of the New Orleans music and cultural community to preserve and nurture the citys culture to translate community vision into policy change and to create a more just and equitable…
Caramoor's mission is to enrich the lives of audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, mentor young professional musicians, and engage children through interactive educational experiences that…
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
To grow and cultivate a local and global community for jazz through performance, education and outreach while celebrating and preserving Charleston's rich history in jazz.
To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.
To advance the art and science of medicine for people of african descent through education, advocacy, and health policy to promote health and wellness, eliminate health disparities and sustain physician viability.
To shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the concert experience.
See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roots of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Austin Community College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds Holler Harm Reduction ↗
- Who funds Colaborativa La Milpa ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL AID DISASTER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Red River Merchants Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JACK AND NANCY DWYER WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Health Alliance for Austin Musicians ↗
- Who funds Roots of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds MADE IN NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LEAF GLOBAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Cahn Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Musics Promise 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.
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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