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National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc

Our mission is to advance the arts and sciences of recording and to foster creative leadership for artistic, cultural, educational, and technical progress in the recording field.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$58MCivil Rights$1.0MHealth$73kPhilanthropy$61kEducation$50kInternational$42kHuman Services$25kEmployment$20kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$1.5M
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $5.8M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$140M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC$3,318,351
GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC$2,478,410
LATIN GRAMMY CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC$150,000
SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME$37,800
BLACK MUSIC ACTION COALITION INC$20,000
DIRECT RELIEF$17,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$17,000
FOUNDATION FOR NC A&T STATE UNIVERSITY INC$10,000
PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$8,500
LOS ANGELES SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
MA
CA
VA
AZ
TN
NC
LA
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$58M · 9 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$58M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
0%

Still filing today

89%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MF
    MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30M · revenue +152% · 37% of their budget
  • GM
    GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26M · revenue +17% · 37% of their budget
  • LG
    LATIN GRAMMY CULTURAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • CO
    COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +62%
  • TN
    THE NARAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $932k · 32% of their budget
  • GI
    GLAAD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $145k · revenue -33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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2
American Composers Forum

To advocate for and support living composers

Arts & Culture
3
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
NationalAssociationof Music Merchants

NAMM's mission is to strengthen the music products industry and promote the pleasures and benefits of making music.

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6
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc

Our mission is to advance the arts and sciences of recording and to foster creative leadership for artistic, cultural, educational, and technical progress in the recording field. a primary activity of the recording academy is the…

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7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
9
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
12
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Black Music Action Coalition Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community FoundationsLgbtq+ Community SupportJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%7%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%48%10–20yr17%51%20–35yr11%1%35–55yr13%0%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,946

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
13/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $30,001,317 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDATION INCGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $26,389,702 · Arts & CultureGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC+5 more — $1,538,090 · Arts & CultureTHE NARAS FOUNDATION — $931,628 · OtherMUSIC EDUCATION COALITION INC GRAMMY MUSIC EDUCATION COALITION — $311,435 · OtherGLAAD INC — $145,000 · Other+8 more — $131,000 · OtherCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $1,000,000 · Civil RightsCITY OF HOPE — $60,050 · HealthTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION — $13,000 · HealthENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $17,000 · PhilanthropyPasadena Community Foundation — $8,500 · PhilanthropyXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA — $10,000 · EducationDILLARD UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationNORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY — $10,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $10,000 · EducationLEWIS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS — $10,000 · EducationDIRECT RELIEF — $17,000 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $15,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $10,000 · International
Arts & Culture$57,929,109Other$1,519,063Civil Rights$1,000,000Health$73,050Philanthropy$60,500Education$50,000International$42,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $30,001,317 over 9y, 37% of budgetGRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $26,389,702 over 9y, 37% of budgetLATIN GRAMMY CULTURAL FOUNDATION — $1,350,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetTHE NARAS FOUNDATION — $931,628 over 1y, 32% of budgetMUSIC EDUCATION COALITION INC GRAMMY MUSIC EDUCATION COALITION — $311,435 over 4y, 79% of budgetSONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME INC — $148,090 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetGLAAD INC — $145,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCITY OF HOPE — $60,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget100 Black Men of Atlanta INC — $26,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWomens Audio Mission — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE MAKE NOISE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS MAKE BEATS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Foundation for NC A&T State University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEWIS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Girls Make Beats Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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