· Private foundation
Ross McKee Foundation for the Musical Arts
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SF International Piano Festival | $15,000 |
| Community Music Center | $10,000 |
| Lieder Alive | $3,000 |
| Ensemble for These Times | $2,900 |
| Cazadero Performing Arts | $2,500 |
| Rhythmic Concepts Inc | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.
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 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
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
- CMCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +27%
- ISInterMusic SF5× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +79%
- CPCAZADERO PERFORMING ARTS CAMP4× · 2017–2021 · $7k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SFSan Francisco International Piano Fone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CMCHAMBER MUSIC SAN FRANCISCOgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +56%
- MAMUSIC AT KOHL MANSION INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +17%
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.
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
The mission of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra (SJCO) is to share exciting, though-provoking, and vibrant Music by contemporary and time-honored composers reflecting the cultural diversity of our everchanging community, and to support and…
The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…
Take world-class symphonic music off the pedestal and into the heart of our community. San Francisco Philharmonic is an orchestral group dedicated to cultural enrichment, music education and creating a performance platform for women and…
Presentation of chamber music to the general public
Community Music / Arts Organization
San francisco civic music association provides a place for musicians of all skill levels and experience to play together and bring their music to the coummunity with free concerts.
Musaics of the Bays main program services involve our residency programs which bring together groups of emerging and established artists musicians and composers to Berkeley CA for a week of direct and intensive collaboration and shared…
Producing classical chamber music concerts open to the general public, and eduction programs in classical music.
New century chamber orchestra, a virtuoso, conductorless string ensemble founded in 1992, presents performances of extraordinary quality in the san francisco bay area with a commitment to innovation, education, and accessibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Performances Inc and the most unlike its peers is Old First Concerts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIEDER ALIVE ↗
- Who funds InterMusic SF ↗
- Who funds LEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds CAZADERO PERFORMING ARTS CAMP ↗
- Who funds Amateur Music Network ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Rainbow Symphony ↗
- Who funds NOE VALLEY CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Other Minds ↗
- Who funds Old First Concerts ↗
- Who funds Stanford Jazz Workshop ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds MUSIC AT KOHL MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Contemporary Music Players ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Performances Inc ↗
- Who funds Noontime Concerts ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN BEETHOVEN SOCIETY CO SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Baker Street Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation · Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis 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 Ross McKee Foundation for the Musical Arts 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.
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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