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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC | $223,212 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC | $200,000 |
| MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $176,552 |
| THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES | $100,000 |
| BIG THOUGHT | $100,000 |
| JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC | $100,000 |
| A PLACE CALLED HOME | $91,666 |
| MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC | $75,000 |
| RYSE INC | $75,000 |
| YOUTH ON RECORD | $50,000 |
| THE MUSIC EDUCATION GROUP INC | $50,000 |
| SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC | $50,000 |
| THE ROAD RECOVERY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The Elma Music Foundation (Us)’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 41% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MSMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC6× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +31%
- JFJazz Foundation of America Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +356%
- EMELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +15%
Funded once
- MFMUSICARES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -11%
- HCHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INCone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -31%
- UAUrban Arts Partnershipone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…
To inspire, educate, and empower "opportunity youth", to achieve academic success through music education, sound engineering, and multimedia production.
Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. our vision is…
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.
Musical Education and Training
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.
Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.
Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
Education through music (etm) was formed to promote the use of music in the core curricula of under-resourced schools as a means of positively impacting student motivation, achievement, and self-confidence by providing year-long, in-school…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mind Builders Creative Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Empowerment Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds RYSE INC ↗
- Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Youth Center ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds BIG THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds SOULSVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds MIND BUILDERS CREATIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC EDUCATION COALITION INC GRAMMY MUSIC EDUCATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds RECESS ACTIVITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON RECORD ↗
- Who funds Road Recovery Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Neutral Zone ↗
- Who funds East Bay Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE MOTIVATIONAL EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds STEM FROM DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC EDUCATION GROUP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Elma Music Foundation (Us) funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Living Classrooms Foundation — 7% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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