New York · Private foundation
The Elma Music Foundation (Us)
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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $223,212
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Elma Music Foundation (Us) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $1.7M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $2.9M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $2.9M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $3.7M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $2.9M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $3.5M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $3.0M | 96% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $450k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan School of Music | $2,176,580 | 6 | 1% |
| Jazz Foundation of America Inc | $1,500,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Ellis Marsalis Center for Music Inc | $1,108,000 | 7 | 14% |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $976,991 | 5 | 0% |
| Memphis Equity Through Arts Inc | $917,070 | 7 | 13% |
| The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc | $900,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Spy Hop Productions | $725,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Ryse Inc | $725,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Save the Music Foundation | $675,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Renaissance Youth Center | $675,000 | 5 | 9% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Elma Music Foundation (Us) supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc · Universal Music All Together Now Foundation Inc · National Basketball Association Foundation · The Hearst Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · D'Addario Foundation Inc · Altman Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Kresge Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Elma Music Foundation (Us)
- How much does The Elma Music Foundation (Us) give?
- The Elma Music Foundation (Us) reported 24 grants totaling $1,946,430 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Elma Music Foundation (Us) fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Youth Development (32%), Philanthropy (18%).
- Who are The Elma Music Foundation (Us)'s largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Manhattan School of Music ($2.2M), Jazz Foundation of America Inc ($1.5M), Ellis Marsalis Center for Music Inc ($1.1M).
- Does The Elma Music Foundation (Us) fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Elma Music Foundation (Us) accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Elma Music Foundation (Us)?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lewis Prize Foundation Inc, Universal Music All Together Now Foundation Inc, National Basketball Association Foundation.
- Where is The Elma Music Foundation (Us) based?
- The Elma Music Foundation (Us) is based in NY.
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