· Private foundation
The Howard and Sarah D Solomon 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $254k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
- $250k+3 grants · $754k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET | $254,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL | $170,000 |
| THE SANTA FE OPERA | $75,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $62,500 |
| METROPOLITAN MUESEUM OF ART | $57,579 |
| CARNEGIE HALL - SONGSTUDIOENSEMBLE | $50,000 |
| PARK AVENUE ARMORY | $26,500 |
| KRONOS PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION | $25,025 |
| CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC & THE ARTS INC | $25,000 |
| GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE INC - RUCKUS | $25,000 |
| THE ENGLISH CONCERT IN AMERICA | $22,095 |
| AMERICAN MODERN OPERA COMPANY | $20,000 |
| FRICK COLLECTION | $20,000 |
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 11%. 89% 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.
81 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 24 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA8× · 2017–2025 · $737k · revenue +84%
- JSJUILLIARD SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +65%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC3× · 2023–2025 · $507k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- COCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY INCone grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue -94% · 98% of their budget
- CYCHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION - OPERA VENTURESone grant, 2019 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $250k
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.
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…
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…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
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.
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…
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…
How this is measured
105 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. 105 of the 180 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 THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MODERN OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE MARIINSKY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DRAMATIC VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD 2030 INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LYRIC THEATER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds ON SITE OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · New Music USA Inc · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bill and Ann Ziff Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Modern Orchestra Project Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- A Far Cry Inc: 1% of income from government
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