· Private foundation
The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $8,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,555 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| MUSIC BEFORE 1800 | $500 |
| YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS | $500 |
| GLIMMERGLASS OPERA | $500 |
| MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $500 |
| OPERA COLORADO | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC4× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +47%
- MBMUSIC BEFORE 1800 INC4× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +34%
- THThe Harlem Chamber Players Inc4× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +534%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
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.
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.
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…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…
To educate the general public of new york on all aspects of opera through opera productions, lectures, classes, camps, social media, newsletters, etc. while emphasizing the need to make opera accessible and affordable to all people, no…
To provide all sectors of the community with affordable, accessible operatic and related musical performances
NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…
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,…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC BEFORE 1800 INC ↗
- Who funds The Harlem Chamber Players Inc ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds MASTERVOICES INC ↗
- Who funds GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Teatro Nuovo Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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