California · Nonprofit
GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,064,448 to it, the largest being THE RAY CHARLES FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Grammy Museum Foundation Inc does
Mission
The grammy museum is a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating and exploring music from yesterday and today to inspire the music of tomorrow through exhibits, education, grants, preservation initiatives, and public programming. Paying tribute to our collective musical heritage, the museum values and celebrates the dynamic connection in people's diverse backgrounds, telling the stories that inspire us, and creative expression that leads change in our industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General admissions: maintaining and operating the grammy museum to provide a one-of-a-kind experience for the public that promotes the creative process, the history of music and the grammy awards, as well as cultural understanding.
$9,373,267 spent$1,170,517 earned by the program67% of program spendingPublic programs and education: the grammy museum hosts a wide range of public programs in the museum's sound stage theatre and throughout the la live campus, where the grammy museum is located as well as virtual programs. Programs include artists interviews, live performances, film series, lectures, artist-in-residence programs, continuing education classes, town hall meetings, special concert series, record label showcases, and curatorial-related programs. All programs are recorded for archival purposes to share with the public. The goal of the grammy museum's education program is to educate and inspire, through exposure to all music and the creative process, all visitors but most specifically school groups and families. The programs include teacher workshops, museum tours, seminars, symposia, master music classes, mentoring programs, music forums, school outreach and musical demonstrations, camps, and saturday family programs.
$4,478,474 spentof which $271,500 as grants$2,161,859 earned by the program32% of program spendingCuratorial services: services provided on setting up and maintaining traveling exhibits, which were constructed for the grammy museum during the year or a prior period, and then transported to and set-up temporarily in another museum-type location. Services also provided in assisting third parties in promoting music education and development outside the grammy museum's location in los angeles, california.
$211,391 spent$291,092 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,063,132.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $17M to $31M (+78%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 17% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Michael Sticka
President & CEO
Board chair
Tim Bucher
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $389k → $2.7M.
19 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $28M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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
GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
35% 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 GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 42% · 2019 46% · 2020 38% · 2021 33% · 2022 30% · 2023 37% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
69% of GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: 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 GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC?
- GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,064,448 to it, the largest being THE RAY CHARLES FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $10,064,448 in grants to GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC?
- THE RAY CHARLES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAMMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 53 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