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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$17,000
DIRECT RELIEF$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
CA
VA
AZ
TN
NC
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

+38%
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
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.

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%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berklee College of Music Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 32 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
13/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $10,000 · EducationLEWIS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: $10,000 · EducationDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationNORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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 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 budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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