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Susan W Rose Fund for Music Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$655
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$655
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192021.

Arts & Culture$102kEducation$2k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$655
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA$655
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $14k → 14%GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP: $1k → 20%SATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC: $5k → 13%ALL STAR ORCHESTRA: $1k → 9%ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $11k → 14%MASTERVOICES INC: $1k → 17%COPLAND HOUSE: $3k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR ITALIAN ART & CULTURE: $1k → 17%AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA: $10k → 17%AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA: $5k → 17%NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG: $5k → 17%AMERICA - ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $2k → 17%AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA: $655 → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL: $15k → 17%THE STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%HARMONY PROGRAM: $800 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

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Foundation for Modern Opera
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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.

3
Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music
Arts & Culture
4
New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra

Advancement of the art of music and public knowledge therefor by producing performances. Featuring emerging conductors and musical soloists.

Arts & Culture
5
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
6
Opera At Florham Inc

To provide all sectors of the community with affordable, accessible operatic and related musical performances

Arts & Culture
7
The American Classical Orchestra Inc

The American Classical Orchestra recreates the sound world of the master composers. The ACO is devoted to preserving and performing the repertoire of 17th, 18th and 19th century composers. By playing the music on original instruments and…

Arts & Culture
8
Metropolis Ensemble Inc

Metropolis Ensemble is a Grammy-nominated nonprofit organization dedicated to commissioning and producing ambitious creative projects in contemporary music. With a particular focus on expanding opportunities for emerging professional…

Arts & Culture
9
The Musicians Aid Society of New York Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Vanguard Concerts
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Oratorio Society of New York

Our mission is to contribute to the cultural fabric of new york city through public performance of both classical and contemporary choral works at the highest musical standards. we are committed to the musical development of members,…

12
Alexander & Buono Worldwide Inc

To identify the worlds most promising classical musicians and help them launch and sustain careers, while developing new audiences to understand, value and appreciate classical music.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albany Symphony Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Graduate Center Foundation Inc. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC — $15,655 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INCSATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSATELLITE COLLECTIVE INCAMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INCYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureCOPLAND HOUSE INC — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $6,550 · Arts & Culture+7 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL — $15,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVALIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC — $5,000 · OtherTHE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INCIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERA — $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $1,500 · Other+3 more — $3,000 · Other+3 moreFOUNDATION FOR ITALIAN ART AND CULTURE- — $1,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$62,205Other$40,500Education$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC — $15,655 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSATELLITE COLLECTIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOPLAND HOUSE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ITALIAN ART AND CULTURE- — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALL-STAR ORCHESTRA SUMMIT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC — $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

The Howard and Sarah D Solomon FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation · Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation Inc · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · New Music USA Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 organization Susan W Rose Fund for Music Inc 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 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.

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    How do I get to Susan W Rose Fund for Music Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Susan W Rose Fund for Music 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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