How much does The Carnegie Hall Corporation give?

The Carnegie Hall Corporation reported 23 grants totaling $620,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Carnegie Hall Corporation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), International (9%), Youth Development (3%).

Who are The Carnegie Hall Corporation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Direct Relief ($553k), Fame Airbrush Inc ($304k), El Paso Symphony Orchestra Assoc Inc ($302k).

Does The Carnegie Hall Corporation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Carnegie Hall Corporation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include D'Addario Foundation Inc, The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc, Pinkerton Foundation.

Where is The Carnegie Hall Corporation based?

The Carnegie Hall Corporation is based in NY.

The Carnegie Hall Corporation

The Carnegie Hall Corporation at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

The Carnegie Hall Corporation

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$621k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$120k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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$6.9MInternational$735kYouth Development$260kEducation$233k

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k22 grants · $502k
$50k–250k1 grant · $120k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$663M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MUSICOPIA INC	$120,400
BUFFALO STRING WORKS	$30,000
EL SISTEMA OKLAHOMA INC	$30,000
ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH MUSIC	$30,000
SOUNDSCAPES INC	$30,000
JUNEAU ALASKA MUSIC MATTERS INC	$30,000
METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA	$30,000
TRENTON MUSIC MAKERS INC	$25,000
WEST POINT SCHOOL OF MUSIC	$25,000
EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION	$25,000
INTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC	$25,000
HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY	$25,000
YAKIMA MUSIC EN ACCION	$22,000
KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$20,000
MAKE MUSIC NOLA	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Carnegie Hall Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Carnegie Hall Corporationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 6.8% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.1M · 61 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.1M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+8%

Still filing today

79%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +8%
MI
MUSICOPIA INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $276k · revenue +216%
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EL SISTEMA OKLAHOMA INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $255k · revenue +125%

Funded once

DIRECT RELIEF
one grant, 2022 · $553k · revenue +8%
CI
CHEERFUL INC
one grant, 2022 · $35k
MI
MAYSLES INSTITUTE INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +54%

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.

04Its field

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.

Intonation Music Workshop

Intonation kids explore their limitless potential by learning to play instruments and forming their own rock bands. Our year-round classes make music accessible to children in low-income neighborhoods by providing them with instruments,…

Arts & Culture

The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc

To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.

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Black Music Entrepreneurship Incubator

Musical Education and Training

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Jeunes Virtuoses De New York Inc

Jeunes Virtuoses de New York" (JVNY) is an ensemble of exceptionally accomplished young musicians who perform on both sides of the Atlantic both as a string camerata, and in various chamber music configurations. Our mission is to transform…

Arts & Culture

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

Sound Studios Olympia

We offer music lessons which are part of a cultural education for students. Along with these lessons we also offer and encourage students to perform multiple times a year in a variety of venues including the Washington Center for the…

Arts & Culture

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

Bloomingdale School of Music

To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.

Arts & Culture

Hermosa Beach Youth Music

To initiate and develop musci education programs for Hermosa Beach youth.

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Orchestrating Dreams Inc

Innovative social program that provides music instruction as a vehicle for personal and social development for underserved children.

Arts & Culture

Young Musicians Unite Inc

Young musicians unite believes that every student in miami-dade county deserves access to music education regardless of their socio-economic background. we collaborate with schools to provide free music education which has been proven to…

Arts & Culture

Commusication

Commusication (cmc) provides free high-quality and accessible after school music programs for youth in grades k-12. programs support the development of leadership and socio-emotional skills along with musical development. cmc provides…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buffalo String Works Inc; the most unlike its peers is Student Dream. 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

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 90 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/73

Grantees still filing

46/73

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$4,795,419Other$1,827,914International$553,356Youth Development$398,906Education$284,319Housing & Shelter$140,000Community Improvement$85,460

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.

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.

D'Addario Foundation IncNY60.2× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: D'Addario Foundation Inc · The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc · New York Council for the Humanities · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Find Your Light 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carnegie Hall Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carnegie Hall Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home