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· Public charity

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 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, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 88 grants below total $657,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,131,050 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $474,050 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 $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
ANGEL CITY ARTS$10,000
RESONANCE COLLECTIVE$10,000
BRIDGE TO EVERYWHERE$10,000
FOUND SOUND NATION INC$10,000
STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC$10,000
DC6 SINGERS COLLECTIVE$10,000
PIANO SPHERES$10,000
BRIGHTWORK NEWMUSIC$10,000
LIBERARTE INC$10,000
NON-OP INC$10,000
SOUTH SIDE SYMPHONY LLC$10,000
FREER RECORDS INC$10,000
MONDAY EVENING CONCERTS$10,000
ZACHARY MOWITZ$10,000
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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Its 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 its 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
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

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PA
NJ
CA
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NM
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
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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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

+23%
+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
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

  • 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%
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Coast Percussion Nfp; 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.
04the grantee network

291 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
76
Early backer (in before they grew)
285/291
Grantees still filing
168/291
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+133 more: $1,957,800 · Arts & Culture+133 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 & LegalCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,250 · Human ServicesAbraham In Motion Inc: $7,000 · Human ServicesWEST KORTRIGHT CENTREINC: $14,050 · Community ImprovementSOUNDS OF SAVING: $9,000 · HealthAMERICAS SOCIETY INC: $7,000 · International
Arts & Culture$2,283,515Other$727,517Education$101,500Crime & Legal$18,250Human Services$14,250Community Improvement$14,050Health$9,000International$7,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHEIDI DUCKLER DANCE: $24,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFLYAWAY PRODUCTIONS: $24,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetM3 MUSICIANS INC: $23,250 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTHE JAZZ GALLERY: $23,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALONZO KING LINES BALLET: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONDAY EVENING CONCERTS: $22,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCOMPOSERS NOW INC: $22,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM STAGE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC: $21,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCreative Music Foundation: $21,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE INDUSTRY PRODUCTIONS INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAudium Incorporated: $20,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEarshot Jazz Society of Seattle: $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFREER RECORDS INC: $18,250 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetAXIS Dance Company: $18,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOUND SOUND NATION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNONOP INC: $18,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetSTREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC: $17,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLAYERHYTHM PRODUCTIONS INC: $17,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetThe Harlem Chamber Players Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetChamberQUEER Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetANANYA DANCE THEATRE: $17,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKATHA DANCE THEATRE: $17,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPiano Spheres: $17,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetANGEL CITY ARTS: $17,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBERGAMOT MUSIC INCORPORATED: $17,000 over 2y, 6.9% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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 349 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home