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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.

$537k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$154k
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.

Arts & Culture$1.5MHealth$80kRecreation & Sports$70kEducation$52kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $495,897, the rows itemized in this filing. The $537,363 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,466 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $364k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE 100 PERCENTERS: $7k → 10%THE PRODUCTION MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NMPA SONGS Foundation: $42k → 14%CULTURAL ARTS ALLIANCE OF WALTON CO: $8k → 11%LATIN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME: $10k → 15%NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INT'L: $60k → 14%THE PRODUCTION MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 14%NICE LIFE MUSIC INC: $100k → 17%THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%CULTURAL ARTS ALLIANCE OF WALTON CO INC: $8k → 11%CITY OF HOPE: $6k → 14%Songwriters Hall of Fame: $47k → 17%NMPA SONGS FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%CULTURAL ARTS ALLIANCE OF WALTON CO INC: $8k → 11%SONGWRITERS OF NORTH AMERICA: $25k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $10k → 17%THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%CULTURAL ARTS ALLIANCE OF WALTON COUNTY: $7k → 11%SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME: $154k → 14%THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME: $152k → 14%Recording Industry Association of America Inc: $8k → 14%SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME: $134k → 14%SPECIAL OLYMPICS DC: $20k → 14%SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME: $87k → 14%SPECIAL OLYMPICS DC: $10k → 14%SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME: $81k → 14%NMPA SONGS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%MUSICARES: $36k → 14%SPECIAL OLYMPICS DC: $10k → 14%MUSICARES FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%NMPA SONGS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%MUSICARES FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%SPECIAL OLYMPICS DC: $10k → 14%MUSICARES FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%NMPA SONGS FOUNDATION: $45k → 14%MUSICARES FOUNDATION: $32k → 14%Special Olympics District of Columbia: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC PUBLISHERS: $21k → 14%NMPA SONGS FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%MUSICARES Foundation Inc: $29k → 14%SPECIAL OLYMPICS DC: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC PUBLISHERS: $9k → 14%BILLBOARD: $40k → 14%SONGWRITERS OF NORTH AMERICA: $60k → 14%BILLBOARD: $23k → 14%SONGWRITERS OF NORTH AMERICA: $25k → 14%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 10 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$1.5M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+29%

Still filing today

90%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • SH
    SONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $655k · revenue +116%
  • MF
    MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +152%
  • SS
    SONA SONGWRITERS OF NORTH AMERICA
    3× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • NS
    NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +32%
  • TM
    TJ MARTELL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +83%
  • CO
    Chamber of Commerce of the USA
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -2%
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
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.

Employment
2
Country Music Association Inc

1. heighten awareness and grow the business of country music.2. serve as the information and communication center for industry and consumer trends.3. provide a forum for industry leadership to advance country music.4. recognize excellence…

Arts & Culture
3
Music Business Association

Trade organization music business does research, holds seminars and has a convention each year for their members

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4
American Composers Forum

To advocate for and support living composers

Arts & Culture
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
Soundexchange Inc

Soundexchange is the premier music tech organization on a mission to power the (see schedule o)

Community Improvement
7
Nashville Songwriters Foundation

To educate, archive and celebrate songwriting that is uniquely associated with the nashville songwriting community.

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8
American Guild of Musical Artists

To advance, foster, promote and benefit all those concerned with the field of music, concert, recital, dance, oratorio and opera; to secure and protect their rights; to secure united action for the common good and to prevent and abolish…

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9
The Sona Foundation

To provide songwriters and composers with resources, support, and programs in mental health, financial wellbeing, career development, and emergency funding to ensure healthy, fulfilling lives for all music creators as they navigate the…

Arts & Culture
10
Church Music Publishers Association Advocacy Group

Encouraging the creation of original music, educating the public, and conducting advocacy programs to protect the rights of songwriters/publishers.

Community Improvement
11
American Federation of Musicians of the Us and Canada Local #10-208

Musicians union - cfm works to achieve dignity and just wages for musicians.

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12
Anthology of Recorded Music Inc

Like the university press, new world records strives to preserve neglected treasures of the past and nurture the creative future of american music. through the production of over 1,200 recordings, some 870 american composers have been…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Songwriters' Hall of Fame Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tj Martell Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME INC: $654,674 · Arts & CultureSONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME INCMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $200,532 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDATION INCCultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Inc: $29,500 · Arts & CultureNICE LIFE MUSIC INC: $100,000 · OtherNICE LIFE MUSIC INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: $70,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT O…VARIETY MEDIA LLC: $62,500 · OtherVARIETY MEDIA LLCNASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 · OtherNASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOC…RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $52,500 · OtherRECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIAT…ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC PUBLISHERS: $30,481 · OtherASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT …+3 more: $27,000 · Other+3 moreNMPA SONGS FOUNDATION: $230,426 · EducationNMPA SONGS FOUND…Research Foundation of the City University of New York: $10,000 · EducationSONA SONGWRITERS OF NORTH AMERICA: $110,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PRODUCTION MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPE: $6,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$884,706Other$402,481Education$240,426Community Improvement$130,000Health$16,000

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 budgetSONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME INC: $654,674 over 6y, 18% of budgetNMPA SONGS FOUNDATION: $230,426 over 6y, 29% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $200,532 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSONA SONGWRITERS OF NORTH AMERICA: $110,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: $70,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetNASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC PUBLISHERS: $30,481 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Inc: $29,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PRODUCTION MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChamber of Commerce of the USA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $6,000 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.

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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 Music Publishers Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Music Publishers Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 18 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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