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· Public charity
SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION
The SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION's mission is to help students, schools, and communities reach their full potential through the power of making music.
$5.3M
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
2
Communities
$49k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Arts & Culture$86kYouth Development$29kOther$8k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2023
—
2024
educationarts
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $97k
$29,264
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK$48,970
- UPBEAT ACADEMY FOUNDATION$29,264
- SUCCESSFUL INCORPORATED$18,400
- NEW ORLEANS ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE$8,200
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Make Music Nola
Make music nola is an intensive music-for-social-change program. the mission of make music nola is to promote academic achievement, cultivate artistic expression, andpromote the healthy growth and development of children in new…
Arts & Culture
2
Austin Jazz Workshop
Arts education
Arts & Culture
3
Juilliard School
Provide the highest caliber of artistic education (see schedule o)for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world.
Education
4
Nebraska Music Education
Professional organization for music educators
Arts & Culture
5
Music in Urban Schools Inspiring Change
MUSIC Inc provides tuition-free music programs for elementary and middle school students on Chicagos west side communities Our programming is offered during after-school hours and during the school day We serve 70 students ages 7 through…
Arts & Culture
6
Musical Instruments N Kids Hands
Music can transform lives especially for kids growing up in difficult circumstances. Music Instruments N Kids Hands mission is to introduce students to science technology engineering arts and math STEAM through an interactive and digital…
Arts & Culture
7
Artsmart
Artsmart is a non-profit organization whose mission is to transform the lives of youth in under-resourced communities across the us through tuition-free music lessons and mentorship by paid, professional artists. since 2016, artsmart is…
Arts & Culture
8
Massachusetts Music Educators
Advocate and promote the advancement of music educators
Arts & Culture
9
Nashville Jazz Workshop
To expand people's lives by offering world class jazz education and performance in supportive and creative environments.
Arts & Culture
10
Opportunity Music Project
Opportunity Music Project provides unique and enriching musical experiences, opening doors for underserved students in the arts. Achievements include the Opportunity Music Project Honors Orchestra performances at Carnegie Halls Weill…
Arts & Culture
11
United Music Parents
Education
12
Kurt Cobain Music Education Project
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memphis Equity Through Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jail Guitar Doors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$85,770Youth Development$29,264Other$8,200
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Project Lead the Way IncIN59.5× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · For Inspiration and Recognition of · Round It Up America Inc · Share Our Strength · Good Sports Inc · Digital Promise Global · The George W Bush Foundation · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · The Education Alliance-Business And · Action for Healthy Kids
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 organisation SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UPBEAT ACADEMY FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 461269947 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on UPBEAT ACADEMY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 56% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Save the Music Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Save the Music Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines