Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL MUSIC PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION INC ($52,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Recording Industry Association of America Inc does
Mission
Supports and promotes the creative and financial vitality of the major music companies. The riaa works to protect the intellectual property and first amendment rights of artists and music labels; conduct consumer, industry and technical research; and monitor and review state and federal laws, regulations and policies. The riaa(r) also certifies gold(r), platinum(r), multi-platinum(tm) and diamond sales awards as well as los premios de oro y platino(tm), an award celebrating latin music sales.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal affairs and content protection encompasses both the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights for record companies and copyright owners. Content protection and enforcement operations include online and physical measures to combat music piracy, addressing unauthorized distribution and the manufacture and sale of counterfeit sound recordings. The majority of expenditures in this area are related to litigation costs incurred by RIAA in representing members and pursuing enforcement actions in civil court. In addition, legal affairs provide counsel to RIAA members, lead statutory license negotiations for the industry, and support the integration of technology objectives through specialized projects, analyses, and studies, ensuring the continued protection and advancement of the recording industry's interests.
$0 spentPublic policy and industry relations: public policy and industry relations engage in legislative, regulatory and legal advocacy for the recording industry.
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $15M to $30M (+95%).
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.
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.
Chief executive
Mitch Glazier
Chairman & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC’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
RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
84% of RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Recording Industry Assoc of Amer Ca PAC · exempt
- Recording Industry Assoc of Amer Fed PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 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 RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC?
- RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,500 to it, the largest being NATIONAL MUSIC PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION INC ($52,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $62,500 in grants to RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC?
- NATIONAL MUSIC PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $52,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2 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