· Private foundation
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k75 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $267k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERA NORTH 2 | $74,500 |
| OPERA NORTH 2 | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY CENTER | $27,500 |
| TRUE CONCORD VOICES & ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| GEORGE ROBARTS | $25,000 |
| OPERA NORTH 2 | $22,450 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,953 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $14,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (4) | $14,500 |
| DETROIT OPERA | $14,125 |
| MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC (2) | $12,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 59% of grant dollars ($1.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 41% that went abroad ($978k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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
Beyond the US: 41% of all-years giving ($978k)
17 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 19% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 14%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 32 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $392k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ONOPERA NORTH2× · 2020–2024 · $64k
- OMORCHESTRA MIAMI INC2× · 2022–2023 · $45k · revenue -1%
- TGTHE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL3× · 2020–2023 · $40k
Funded once
- TCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue +13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $70k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
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…
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…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.
The orchestra pursues its mission, "to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences which exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation," through the blend of traditional…
The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 264 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE CONCORD VOICES AND ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Ny Ll Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY OPERA HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Ibm International Foundation · Opera America Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
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