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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. A primary activity of the recording academy is the recognition of outstanding creative and technical achievements in the recording arts of those deemed to be…

$6.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,318,351
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$140M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$6.0M38%
FY20247$6.3M43%
FY20238$6.6M38%
FY202211$6.5M64%
FY20216$6.0M33%
FY20209$11M33%
FY20196$7.8M0%
FY20186$5.4M33%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$30MArts & Culture$29MCivil Rights$1.1MPhilanthropy$61kEducation$60kInternational$52kYouth Development$36kRecreation & Sports$15k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
CA
VA
AZ
TN
NC
LA
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Musicares Foundation Inc$30,001,317937%
Grammy Museum Foundation Inc$26,389,702937%
Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation$1,350,000911%
Color of Changeorg Education Fund$1,000,0001n/a
The Naras Foundation$931,628132%
Music Education Coalition Inc Grammy Music Education Coalition$311,435479%
Songwriters' Hall of Fame Inc$148,09063%
Glaad Inc$145,00011%
City of Hope$60,05040%
100 Black Men of Atlanta INC$26,00011%
Ellis Marsalis Center for Music Inc$25,00011%
Black Music Action Coalition Inc$20,0001n/a
Womens Audio Mission$20,00021%
Direct Relief$17,00010%
Israel Emergency Alliance$15,00010%
Arizona State University$15,0001n/a
Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission$15,00020%
Tj Martell Foundation$13,00020%
Xavier University of Louisiana$10,00010%
Berklee College of Music Inc$10,00010%
International Medical Corps$10,00010%
Lewis College of Business$10,00010%
Dillard University$10,00010%
We Make Noise Inc$10,00014%
The Foundation for NC A&T State University$10,00010%
Live Nation Worldwide Inc$10,0001n/a
Girls Make Beats Inc$10,00012%
Norfolk State University Foundation Inc and Subsidiary$10,00010%
Fayetteville State University$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 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 budgetBerklee College of Music Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Medical Corps: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLewis College of Business: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDillard University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Make Noise Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe Foundation for NC A&T State University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Make Beats Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNorfolk State University Foundation Inc and Subsidiary: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc

How much does National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc give?
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc reported 10 grants totaling $6,167,203 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Arts & Culture (48%), Civil Rights (2%).
Who are National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Musicares Foundation Inc ($30M), Grammy Museum Foundation Inc ($26M), Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation ($1.4M).
Does National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc based?
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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