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New Music USA Inc

To nurture a vibrant and inclusive community for artists and listeners by supporting the creation, performance, and appreciation of new music throughout the united states.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
88
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Arts & Culture$3.9MCommunity Improvement$131kEducation$75kReligion$17kHealth$16kYouth Development$14kCrime & Legal$8kEmployment$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 88 grants below total $657,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,131,050 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $474,050 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 $10k73 grants · $507k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $150k
$7,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR$10,000
BRIDGE TO EVERYWHERE$10,000
FOUND SOUND NATION INC$10,000
NON-OP INC$10,000
MONDAY EVENING CONCERTS$10,000
FREER RECORDS INC$10,000
ZACHARY MOWITZ$10,000
LIBERARTE INC$10,000
PIANO SPHERES$10,000
BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC$10,000
STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC$10,000
RESONANCE COLLECTIVE$10,000
SOUTH SIDE SYMPHONY LLC$10,000
ANGEL CITY ARTS$10,000
DC6 SINGERS COLLECTIVE$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOOKING GLASS ARTS: $6k → 10%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7k → 8%ABRAHAMINMOTION INC: $7k → 17%KITKA INC: $6k → 10%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

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CA
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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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 105 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

105 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
200

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+11%

Still filing today

93%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $322k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • TS
    The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
    2× · 2019–2023 · $110k · revenue +58%
  • CH
    COPLAND HOUSE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +139%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2019 · $108k · revenue +14%
  • CS
    CHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2019 · $86k · revenue 0%
  • PS
    PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $29k · revenue 0%

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
Foundation for Modern Opera
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2
BlackBox Ensemble Inc

To present and promote contemporary classical music through innovative, interdisciplinary performances; to support living composers; and to engage diverse audiences through education, collaboration, and community-based programming.…

Arts & Culture
3
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

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4
Cantata Profana Inc

Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…

Arts & Culture
5
Constella Arts

Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.

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6
Vanguard Concerts
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7
Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music
Arts & Culture
8
Constellation Performing Arts

Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.

Arts & Culture
9
Artronika

ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…

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10
Muse Cincinnati Womens Choir

MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity…

Arts & Culture
11
Cut Circle

The purpose of CUT CIRCLE is to bring late-medieval and Renaissance music to life. Reimagining early music as a site of gritty, intense experiences, Cut Circle's performances are distinguished by their energy and emotional sensitivity.…

Arts & Culture
12
Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Coast Percussion Nfp and the most unlike its peers is Girls Rock Des Moines. 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 backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Local History MuseumsIndependent K-12 SchoolsDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%7/348
the rest of the field
13%
240,389/1,819,217

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

291 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. 291 of the 349 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)
74
Early backer (in before they grew)
285/291
Grantees still filing
169/291
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society — $109,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $108,129 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $108,086 · Arts & Culture+134 more — $1,964,800 · Arts & Culture+134 moreBERKELERY SYMPHONY — $89,522 · OtherBERKELERY SYMPHONYCHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $86,245 · OtherCHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY…EXAPNO NEW MUSIC COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 · Other+47 more — $526,750 · Other+47 moreM3 MUSICIANS INC — $23,250 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $14,000 · EducationNew Orleans Airlift — $13,250 · EducationTHE CROSSING INC — $13,000 · EducationHelen Simoneau Danse Inc — $12,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE — $8,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $8,000 · EducationFREER RECORDS INC — $18,250 · Crime & LegalWEST KORTRIGHT CENTREINC — $14,050 · Community ImprovementSOUNDS OF SAVING — $9,000 · HealthCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $7,250 · Human ServicesERA Footwork Foundation Inc — $7,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$2,290,515Other$727,517Education$101,500Crime & Legal$18,250Community Improvement$14,050Health$9,000Human Services$7,250Philanthropy$7,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society — $109,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $108,129 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $108,086 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPAIGN-URBANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $86,245 over 1y, 21% of budgetCOPLAND HOUSE INC — $42,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC — $38,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC — $35,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetROULETTE INTERMEDIUM INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $29,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetShaleigh Dance Works — $28,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetPRISM QUARTET INCORPORATED — $26,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNew Music Chicago — $26,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetIMANI WINDS FOUNDATION INC — $25,750 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRAGAMALA DANCE — $25,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUNA COMPOSITION LAB INC — $24,200 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFLYAWAY PRODUCTIONS — $24,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHEIDI DUCKLER DANCE — $24,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetM3 MUSICIANS INC — $23,250 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $23,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JAZZ GALLERY — $23,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetALONZO KING LINES BALLET — $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMPOSERS NOW INC — $22,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetMONDAY EVENING CONCERTS — $22,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC — $21,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE INDUSTRY PRODUCTIONS INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCreative Music Foundation — $21,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAudium Incorporated — $20,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetEarshot Jazz Society of Seattle — $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFREER RECORDS INC — $18,250 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetAXIS Dance Company — $18,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNONOP INC — $18,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetFOUND SOUND NATION INC — $18,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSTREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC — $17,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPiano Spheres — $17,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetANGEL CITY ARTS — $17,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetANANYA DANCE THEATRE — $17,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Harlem Chamber Players Inc — $17,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetKATHA DANCE THEATRE — $17,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetChamberQUEER Inc — $17,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLAYERHYTHM PRODUCTIONS INC — $17,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetBRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC — $17,000 over 2y, 6.5% 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.

The Aaron Copland Fun…The Amphion Foundatio…Mid Atlantic Arts IncThe Howard Gilman Fou…Chamber Music America…The Map Fund IncNew England Foundatio…The Fan Fox and Lesli…The Andrew W Mellon F…Ann & Gordon Getty Fo…The Harkness Foundati…The Gladys Krieble De…
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPNY161.8× affinity87 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Chamber Music America Inc · The Map Fund Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · The Gladys Krieble Delmas 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 New Music USA 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 · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Trilogy an Opera Company — 34% of income from government
  • Nimbus Dance Works Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Anikaya Akhra Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Guerilla Opera Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Axelrod Performing Arts Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 349 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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