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The Earle Brown Music Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$637k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$637k
Largest
01What it funds
0168% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.0MArts & Culture$26kInternational$15kEducation$11kHuman Services$3kCommunity Improvement$3kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$636,765
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR ADVISED FUND$636,765
02The need
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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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble: $2k → 11%Musical Elements: $6k → 15%Callithumpian Projects Foundation: $3k → 8%Escape-Landscape at AC Institute: $1k → 9%Yarnwire Stony Brook: $2k → 13%Performance Zone Inc DBA The Field: $1k → 17%Ensemble Mise-En Inc: $3k → 20%The Rothko Chapter: $2k → 16%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%Umuu Ensemble Finland Concerts: $3k → 13%Bellingham Chamber Music Society: $2k → 12%Support of Feldman Piano Four Hands: $2k → 11%Fractured Atlas - Three Voices Concert: $3k → 17%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESPONSE: $15k → 20%Patterns in a Chromatic Field: $1k → 13%Steven Myron Holl Foundation: $450 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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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.
03Its 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.

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Foundation for Modern Opera
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The New York New Music Ensemble Inc

To commission and perform new music

Arts & Culture
3
Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music
Arts & Culture
4
Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble

Offering Professional Music Concerts

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5
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.

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6
S E M Ensemble Inc

To provide contemporary music to Europe and United States audiences based upon a unique and innovative platform and forum.

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Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra

The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra crafts performances that tell the story of the human experience in new ways, providing musical arts education and fulfillment to people of all walks of life. SMCO features music by composers of…

Arts & Culture
8
BlackBox Ensemble Inc

To present and promote contemporary classical music through innovative, interdisciplinary performances; to support living composers; and to engage diverse audiences through education, collaboration, and community-based programming.…

Arts & Culture
9
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc

Park avenue armory's mission is to enable a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in new york. with its soaring…

Arts & Culture
10
Ross Mckee Foundation for the Musical Arts
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Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Nyc Chapter Inc

Our primary mission is to present concerts that represent the music of AACM Composers. The concert activities are designed to bring new American music to the general public and to create an atmosphere that is conducive for the artistically…

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Chicago Wind Symphony
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yarnwire Inc; the most unlike its peers is Steven Myron Holl 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

8 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. 8 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED FUND: $3,675,925 · OtherDONOR ADVISED FUND+25 more: $60,963 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESPONSE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthENSEMBLE MISE-EN INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureBELLINGHAM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $1,917 · Arts & CultureYARNWIRE INC: $1,850 · Arts & CultureSTEVEN MYRON HOLL FOUNDATION INC: $450 · Arts & CultureTexas A&M Foundation: $5,000 · EducationRothko Chapel: $1,500 · Religion
Other$3,736,888Health$15,000Arts & Culture$7,217Education$5,000Religion$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESPONSE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE MISE-EN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYARNWIRE INC: $1,850 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRothko Chapel: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEVEN MYRON HOLL FOUNDATION INC: $450 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESPONSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ENSEMBLE MISE-EN INC ↗
  • Who funds BELLINGHAM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds YARNWIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Rothko Chapel ↗
  • Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds STEVEN MYRON HOLL FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Earle Brown Music Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Earle Brown Music Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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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    How do I get to The Earle Brown Music Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Earle Brown Music Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 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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