New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,065 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($31,537). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $256k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $77k
What American Composers Alliance does
Mission
First established in the 1930s, aca has developed as a publishing administrator for american concert music, representing composers and estates through several generations of creative work. With a curated catalog of over 15,000 works, aca preserves historical works, introduces new works, and develops innovative ways to increase awareness, performance opportunities and public engagement with a unique and growing catalog preserved in print and modern digital formats.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary program activity for aca involves the management and preservation of a collection of classical music by several generations of american composers, dating to 1905. The goal is to continue the work of the organizations's founders to support and curate new creative work and also preserve historical works, maintaining a diverse catalog that reaches performing artists world-wide. The grranting of administration and custodial rights to aca by the authors allows for their music to remain in print for study and performance for the long term future. During the 2022-2023 year aca was awarded a government grant from the national endowment for the arts (nea) in the amount of 10,000 for work being done on the catalog through 2023. Expenses towards this project were incurred during the current fiscal year - so while the grant will not be awarded until the next fiscal year, the current year deficit will be corrected in the following year when the award is received.
$160,085 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $160,085.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $49k to $94k (+94%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $14k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 77% · 2022 46% · 2023 86% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
81% of AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE?
- AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,065 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($31,537). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $84,065 in grants to AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $31,537 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN COMPOSERS ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing