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The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2019
29%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,750
Organizations funded a year
18 to 21
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 29% of the organizations The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$60k50%
FY201921$76k29%
FY201819$73k21%
FY201718$68kn/a
70% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$181kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($265k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetManhattan School of Music: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Before 1800 Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Harlem Chamber Players Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMastervoices Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlimmerglass Opera Theatre Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Concert Artists Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpera Colorado: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc

How much does The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc give?
The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc reported 18 grants totaling $59,805 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (65%).
Who are The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Manhattan School of Music ($2k), Music Before 1800 Inc ($2k), The Harlem Chamber Players Inc ($2k).
Does The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc based?
The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc is based in NJ.

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 37 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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