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THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $492,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC has grown faster than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Marc Haas Foundation Incshared funders
- Harmony Foundation International Incportfolio match
- Susan W Rose Fund for Music Incportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $1k → $121k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK 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
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 29% · 2021 50% · 2022 83% · 2023 83% — 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
20% of THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Marc Haas Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Harmony Foundation International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susan W Rose Fund for Music Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frederick Loewe Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music Matters Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Xxxxx5009portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Funding Arts Broward Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louis Armstrong Educational Foundatportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Putnam Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Houston Saengerbundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK 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 THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC?
- THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $492,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $492,000 in grants to THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC?
- THE WILLIAM H DONNER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing