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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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $548k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $492k
- Net assets
- $-207415
What The Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook Inc does
Program
Produce weekly television and radio broadcasts and distribute the show recordings via electronic media free of charge to radio and television outlets for broadcast in their markets. Also bringing awareness of the Great American Songbook through several interactive digital platforms. Mentor young artists with an interest in the Songbook.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2019 to 2020, from $91k to $26k (−71%).
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
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 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
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK INC has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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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.
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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 16 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