Does The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation)?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, Perenchio Foundation.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation)

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 41
Grants FY2024: 38
Organizations funded FY2023: 37%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 24 to 55; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 11
Total assets, FY2024: $78M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	34	$4.2M	38%
FY2023	38	$4.3M	37%
FY2022	24	$2.9M	29%
FY2021	40	$3.2M	20%
FY2020	55	$2.8M	65%
FY2019	27	$2.2M	30%
FY2018	25	$1.9M	48%
FY2017	26	$2.0M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$18MHealth$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.6MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$785kSocial Science$300kCrime & Legal$110kOther$0

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Education Through Music Inc	$3,500,000	7	16%
Mason City Foundation	$968,704	8	51%
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk	$915,000	6	n/a
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association	$775,000	7	0%
Arts and Services for Disabled Inc Dba Able Arts Work	$774,350	6	4%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$725,000	5	3%
Los Angeles Opera Company	$614,000	5	1%
Save the Music Foundation	$530,000	3	3%
Create CA	$490,000	6	7%
Harmony Project	$451,000	5	2%

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All grantees of The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Education Through Music Inc	$3,500,000	7	16%
Mason City Foundation	$968,704	8	51%
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk	$915,000	6	n/a
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association	$775,000	7	0%
Arts and Services for Disabled Inc Dba Able Arts Work	$774,350	6	4%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$725,000	5	3%
Los Angeles Opera Company	$614,000	5	1%
Save the Music Foundation	$530,000	3	3%
Create CA	$490,000	6	7%
Harmony Project	$451,000	5	2%
National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc	$440,000	6	19%
Etm-La Inc	$425,000	2	9%
Music Will Inc	$400,000	4	3%
Californians for the Arts	$375,000	3	14%
Resounding Joy Inc	$355,000	5	24%
The Aspen Institute Inc	$300,000	1	0%
California State University Northridge Foundation	$278,000	4	1%
The Great American Songbook Foundation Inc	$255,000	5	5%
Memorial Medical Center Foundation	$227,920	3	1%
Vista del Mar Child and Family Services	$209,000	3	0%
American Music Therapy Association	$200,000	1	19%
Creativets	$200,000	2	7%
Braver AngelsInc	$200,000	2	2%
Arts for LA	$187,750	3	10%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	$187,000	2	0%
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts	$175,000	4	0%
Arts for Healing and Justice Network	$175,000	1	3%
Street Poets Inc	$175,000	3	4%
Young Musicians Foundation	$150,000	4	4%
Equity Arc	$135,000	1	13%
The Colburn School	$135,000	4	0%
Sharp Healthcare Foundation	$131,550	2	0%
Neighborhood Music School Association	$125,000	3	7%
Banding Together	$125,000	3	80%
Grand Vision Foundation	$100,000	2	9%
Give a Beat Foundation	$100,000	2	10%
Right to the City Alliance	$100,000	2	0%
Etm-Massachusetts Inc	$100,000	2	8%
Opera America Inc	$90,000	1	1%
Arts Ignite Inc	$85,000	5	2%
Ps Arts	$80,000	3	1%
Pasadena Conservatory of Music	$80,000	2	2%
Lifetime Arts Inc	$80,000	1	6%
Tonality	$75,000	1	22%
Riverside Arts Academy	$75,000	1	19%
New Music USA Inc	$65,000	1	3%
A Place Called Home	$60,000	2	0%
Grantmakers in the Arts	$60,000	2	1%
Community Partners	$55,000	1	0%
The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation	$50,000	1	2%
Etm-Colorado Inc	$50,000	1	7%
Fernando Pullum Community Arts Center	$50,000	1	5%
Symphonic Jazz Orchestra	$47,381	2	12%
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION	$40,000	1	1%
Long Beach Opera	$40,000	1	3%
Sounds Like La	$40,000	2	6%
Musyca	$35,000	2	6%
Inner City Youth Orchrstra of Los Angeles Inc	$35,000	1	n/a
Claremont Community School of Music	$35,000	2	2%
The Pasadena Symphony Association	$30,500	2	1%
Inner-City Arts	$30,000	2	0%
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra	$27,000	2	4%
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association	$26,000	2	0%
Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Maryvale	$25,000	1	n/a
Elemental Music	$25,000	2	3%
Vox Femina Los Angeles	$20,000	2	4%
Los Angeles Music and Art School	$20,000	1	3%
Macnider Art Museum	$16,285	1	n/a
THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA	$15,000	1	1%
Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association	$15,000	1	3%
El Sistema USA	$15,000	1	6%
Theatre Forward Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County	$15,000	1	0%
The Theatre at Boston Court	$14,500	5	1%
Los Angeles Children's Chorus	$13,000	1	1%
Arts & Minds Inc	$12,500	2	7%
Otis College of Art and Design	$10,000	1	0%
New York University	$10,000	1	0%
American Youth Symphony Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Mason City Schools Instrumental Music Boosters Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Jail Guitar Doors	$10,000	1	1%
Southland Sings	$10,000	1	6%
Los Angeles Jazz Society	$5,000	1	n/a
Kadima Conservatory of Music Inc	$5,000	1	5%
Arts Ed Nj Inc	$5,000	1	1%
The La Mirada Symphony Association	$5,000	1	17%
Broadway for Arts Education Inc	$4,500	1	1%
Jazzreach Performing Arts & Education Association	$3,500	1	1%
Ojai Playwrights Conference	$2,000	1	1%
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company	$1,000	1	0%
Dream a World Education Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Academy Museum Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Jvs Socal	$1,000	2	0%
Merit School of Music	$1,000	1	0%
Breakthrough T1d	$1,000	1	0%
Levine Music Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Music Mends Minds Inc	$500	1	0%
Wo Smith Nashville Community Music School	$500	1	0%
La County Library Foundation	$500	1	0%
The Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.2M), not named here.

The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 95.

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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.

The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA52.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · California Community Foundation · Colburn Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Snap Foundation

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.

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About The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation)

How much does The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) give?: The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) reported 41 grants totaling $4,238,030 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (71%), Health (7%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation)'s largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Education Through Music Inc ($3.5M), Mason City Foundation ($969k), Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk ($915k).
Does The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation)?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, Perenchio Foundation.
Where is The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) based?: The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation) is based in CA.