· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $443k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Make Music Alliance | $105,000 |
| State Education Agency Direct | $50,000 |
| Nat String Proj Con | $40,000 |
| Guitars and Access Marketing | $40,000 |
| Audiotonix | $30,000 |
| Music Achievement Council | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Guitars in the Classroom | $25,000 |
| SD Youth Smphy | $22,500 |
| Music Will | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,500 |
| Save the Music Foundation | $20,000 |
| Tech Inst for Music Educators | $20,000 |
| Notes 4 Notes | $20,000 |
| Days of Service Partners | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Grants abroad, by region: $115k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Further Music Mkg
Stated purpose: Futher Music Mkg
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Stated purpose: Further Music Mkg
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GIGUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM8× · 2017–2025 · $251k · revenue +92%
- MWMUSIC WILL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $220k · revenue +4%
- DHDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TITechnology Institute for Musione grant, 2020 · $25k
- CAChorus Americaone grant, 2021 · $23k
- MFMusic For Allone grant, 2021 · $21k
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.
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 51 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NAMM Foundation A Not-For-Profit Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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