New York · Public charity
Save the Music Foundation
SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION helps kids, schools, and communities reach their full potential through the power of making music.
- $4.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $173k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $43,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Save the Music Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $173k | 89% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $105k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Successful Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 34% |
| National Performance Network Inc | $48,970 | 1 | 2% |
| We Make Noise Inc | $43,000 | 2 | 12% |
| The Music Education Group Inc | $31,104 | 2 | n/a |
| Upbeat Academy Foundation | $29,264 | 1 | 56% |
| The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation | $25,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Young Musicians Unite Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Orff-Schulwerk Association | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Word Inc | $11,500 | 2 | 2% |
| El Sistema Santa Cruz | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Successful Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 34% |
| National Performance Network Inc | $48,970 | 1 | 2% |
| We Make Noise Inc | $43,000 | 2 | 12% |
| The Music Education Group Inc | $31,104 | 2 | n/a |
| Upbeat Academy Foundation | $29,264 | 1 | 56% |
| The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation | $25,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Young Musicians Unite Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Orff-Schulwerk Association | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Southern Word Inc | $11,500 | 2 | 2% |
| El Sistema Santa Cruz | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| New Orleans Arts Education Alliance | $8,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Kent State University | $5,775 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Save the Music Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Round It Up America Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Share Our Strength · Good Sports Inc · Digital Promise Global · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · The George W Bush Foundation · The Education Alliance-Business and Community for Public Schools Inc · I Car Education Foundation
How this is measured
About Save the Music Foundation
- How much does Save the Music Foundation give?
- Save the Music Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $172,579, out of $4,228,978 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Save the Music Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
- Who are Save the Music Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Successful Inc ($55k), National Performance Network Inc ($49k), We Make Noise Inc ($43k).
- Does Save the Music Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Save the Music Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Project Lead the Way Inc, Project Lead the Way Inc, GenYOUTH Incorporated.
- Where is Save the Music Foundation based?
- Save the Music Foundation is based in NY.
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