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Project Music Heals US Inc

Project: music heals us provides encouragement, education and healing by offering high-quality live music performances and interactive, educational programming to marginalized communities with limited ability to access the arts

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$101kHealth$44kEducation$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$719k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALASTINA$10,400
BARD COLLEGE INTL STUDENT FUND$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$5,200
MIDSUMMER'S MUSIC$5,200
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%American Modern Opera Company: $10k → 8%ABLE BODY CHRISTIAN MEN: $8k → 22%Salastina: $10k → 14%BARD COLLEGE INTL STUDENT FUND: $10k → 9%University of Rochester: $10k → 14%Imani Winds Foundation: $5k → 17%MIDSUMMER'S MUSIC: $8k → 8%Crescent City Chamber Music Festiva: $10k → 23%SALASTINA: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%MIDSUMMER'S MUSIC: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
LA
GA
TX
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$96k · 4 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$96k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+70%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +35%
  • S
    SALASTINA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +128%
  • BD
    BACH DANCING & DYNAMITE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $21k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CT
    CHALLENGE THE STATS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -10%
  • AM
    AMERICAN MODERN OPERA COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +572%
  • CC
    Crescent City Chamber Music Festival Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
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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2
Chicago Wind Symphony
Arts & Culture
3
San Jose Chamber Music Society

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…

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4
Foundation for Modern Opera
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5
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
6
Arion Chamber Music Inc

Present compelling chamber music performances.

Arts & Culture
7
Seattle Chamber Orchestra

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Vanguard Concerts
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9
Cleveland Chamber Collective

Non-profit organization dedicated to presenting frees concert of Classical Music

Arts & Culture
10
Lyrica Baroque

The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Imani Winds Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Rochester. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALASTINA: $31,200 · Arts & CultureSALASTINABACH DANCING & DYNAMITE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN INC: $20,800 · Arts & CultureBACH DANCING & DYNAMITE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN INCMIDSUMMER'S MUSIC LTD: $13,000 · Arts & CultureMIDSUMMER'S MUSIC LTDCHALLENGE THE STATS: $10,400 · Arts & CultureCHALLENGE THE STATSAMERICAN MODERN OPERA COMPANY: $10,400 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MODERN OPERA COMPANYCrescent City Chamber Music Festival Inc: $10,400 · Arts & CultureCrescent City Chamber Music Festival IncIMANI WINDS FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $31,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERBARD COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGEABC MEN: $7,800 · OtherABC MENHEARTS NEED ART: $5,200 · OtherHEARTS NE…
Arts & Culture$101,400Education$41,200Other$13,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $31,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSALASTINA: $31,200 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetBACH DANCING & DYNAMITE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN INC: $20,800 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetMIDSUMMER'S MUSIC LTD: $13,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHALLENGE THE STATS: $10,400 over 1y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN MODERN OPERA COMPANY: $10,400 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMANI WINDS FOUNDATION INC: $5,200 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHEARTS NEED ART: $5,200 over 1y, 2.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Project Music Heals US Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Project Music Heals US Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $20k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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