California · Public charity
NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation
Advancing active participation in music making across the lifespan by supporting scientific research, philanthropic giving and public service programs from the international music products industry and providing a museum to display historical treasures in music.
- $790k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2025
- $605k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $605k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $403k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $374k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $641k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $385k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $510k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $490k | 16% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $485k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guitars in the Classroom | $251,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Music Will Inc | $220,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Engage Inc | $72,000 | 5 | 1% |
| David's Harp Foundation | $22,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Notes for Change Inc | $22,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Arts and Healing Initiative | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Dovana Foundation Inc | $10,051 | 1 | 30% |
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation
- How much does NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation give?
- NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $605,000, out of $789,687 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Youth Development (8%), Education (2%).
- Who are NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Guitars in the Classroom ($251k), Music Will Inc ($220k), Engage Inc ($72k).
- Does NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation based?
- NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation is based in CA.
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