· Private foundation
Pacific Harmony Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROWDEN MUSIC CENTER | $25,000 |
| Musicambia | $20,000 |
| Oakland East Bay Symphony | $20,000 |
| UC REGENTS CAL PERFORMANCES | $10,000 |
| Ojai Music Festival | $10,000 |
| East Bay Center for the Performing | $10,000 |
| American Composers Orchestra | $7,500 |
| New Music USA | $5,000 |
| Contemporaneous | $5,000 |
| BERKELEY SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against -98% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe Crowden Music Center7× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +12%
- MIMUSICAMBIA INC5× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +404% · 32% of their budget
- EBEAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY7× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- PBPacific Boychoir Academyone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -98%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
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.
New century chamber orchestra, a virtuoso, conductorless string ensemble founded in 1992, presents performances of extraordinary quality in the san francisco bay area with a commitment to innovation, education, and accessibility.
Community Music / Arts Organization
Gather diverse and talented musicians, professionals and amateurs, to curate and perform orchestral repertoire that uplifts, inspires, and celebrates live performances, as well as offer educational activities concerning music.
Advancement of the art of music and public knowledge therefor by producing performances. Featuring emerging conductors and musical soloists.
Promote Contemporary Choral Music
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Crowden Music Center ↗
- Who funds MUSICAMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds East Bay Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds NEW MUSIC USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WILD UP ↗
- Who funds CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ALARM WILL SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORANEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds Other Minds ↗
- Who funds JACARANDA ↗
- Who funds WEST EDGE OPERA ↗
- Who funds Pacific Boychoir Academy ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · New Music USA Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pacific Harmony Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pacific Harmony Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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