· Public charity
National Music Publishers Association Inc
Nmpa promotes, protects, and advances the interests of music publishers and songwriters in matters relating to domestic and global protection of copyrights.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $495,897 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $537,363 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,466 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $364k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME | $154,025 |
| NICE LIFE MUSIC INC | $100,000 |
| SONGWRITERS OF NORTH AMERICA | $60,000 |
| NMPA SONGS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MUSICARES | $35,532 |
| THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| BILLBOARD | $22,500 |
| ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC PUBLISHERS | $21,340 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS DC | $10,000 |
| LATIN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME | $10,000 |
| CULTURAL ARTS ALLIANCE OF WALTON CO | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SHSONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME INC6× · 2017–2025 · $655k · revenue +116%
- MFMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +152%
- SSSONA SONGWRITERS OF NORTH AMERICA3× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- NSNASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +32%
- TMTJ MARTELL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +83%
- COChamber of Commerce of the USAone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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15 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. 15 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds NMPA SONGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SONA SONGWRITERS OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC PUBLISHERS ↗
- Who funds Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PRODUCTION MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LATIN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds Chamber of Commerce of the USA ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
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.
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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 Music Publishers Association 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.
- Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Inc — 1% of income from government
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.