· Private foundation
Williamson Foundation for Music
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 $10k47 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $11,556 |
| SCOTTISH FIDDLERS OF CALIFORNIA | $7,000 |
| FESTIVAL CORDES ET PICS | $7,000 |
| BANG ON A CAN | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| YOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY | $3,500 |
| ENONE | $3,500 |
| CENTRUM FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| FONTAINEBLEAU ASSOCIATIONS | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| MOON & STARS FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| GENERATIONS IN JAZZ FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| PEAKS TO PLAINS SUZUKI | $3,500 |
| MUSICALTA | $3,500 |
| NEXT FESTIVAL OF EMERGING ARTISTS INC | $3,500 |
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: 57% of grant dollars ($610k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 43% that went abroad ($456k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% 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: 43% of all-years giving ($456k)
20 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 28 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BOBANG ON A CAN9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +54%
- YMYOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +89%
- GIGENERATIONS IN JAZZ FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $24k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $13k
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.
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…
To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…
The Big Sur Fiddle Camp is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization and has been in operation for twelve years. Annually, we have run a specialized music program for about 40 youth, 15 music-loving volunteers, and 15 instructors during each…
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.
At MusicMi we set a mission for ourselves to provide aspiring young musicians from across the country with an opportunity to study with world-class artists and to provide our students with a music education of the highest artistic…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 214 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 BANG ON A CAN ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS IN JAZZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW MUSIC ON THE POINT INC ↗
- Who funds KINHAVEN MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds International Cello Institute ↗
- Who funds CENTRUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOW BARN INC ↗
- Who funds Palenke Arts ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds NEXT EDGE ARTS 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Williamson Foundation for Music funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Williamson Foundation for Music. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kinhaven Music School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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