Grants for music festivals and events

Name: Top 25 grants made to music festival and event organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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1,802 music festival and event organizations received at least $10.1 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 2,279 grants made from 1,525 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $2,000. Of these 1,525 foundations, 81% made just a single grant to music orgs, and 3% made grants to four or more music orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$10,053,838

Total grant dollars given to music festivals and events

2,279

Number of grants made annually to music festivals and events

1,525

Number of grantmakers funding music festivals and events

$2,000

Median grant size to music festivals and events

Foundations that support music festival and event organizations

Out of all grants made to music festivals and events, 75% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 54% of the dollar-value of grants to music orgs. Foundations funding music orgs also made grants to symphony orchestras, performing arts centers, theaters, art museums, and multiservice human service organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	1,157
Medium	213
Large	153

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	43
Private	1,319
Corporate	69
Other	94

Grants made

Grants made to music orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	1,239
2-3	230
4-10	45
11+	11

Top 10 foundations supporting music festival and event organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to music orgs	Number of grants made to music orgs	Median grant size
D'addario Foundation	NY	National	26.4%	56	$2,214
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines	IA	State	0.1%	41	$1,250
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.1%	33	$1,500
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.2%	26	$500
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	21	$130
The Rhode Island Foundation	RI	Metro	0.1%	20	$2,568
Greater Worcester Community Foundation	MA	Metro	0.8%	18	$2,085
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.3%	16	$500
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	15	$2,500
Sempra Energy Foundation	CA	State	0.4%	14	$200

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Music festival and event organizations grantees

Music festivals and events with more than $5 million in total revenues received 55% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 6% of all music orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	2,278
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	1

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$2,000
$100k-$500k	$1,939
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$2,000
>$5M	$1,615

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	374
California	240
Massachusetts	126
Illinois	120
Other	1,419

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	337
Chicago	112
Boston	71
Los Angeles	63
Other	1,473

Top 25 grants made to music festivals and events

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Carnegie Hall / The Carnegie Hall Corporation	$5,000,000	Performing Arts	The Kovner Foundation
The Defiant Requiem Foundation	$5,000	General Operating Support	Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation
Sierra Music Society	$5,000	General Support	Oddfellows Retirement Manor
Oyster Bay Music Festival	$5,000	General	The Joel Foundation
Early Music Foundation	$5,000	Charitable	Reed Foundation
Sounds and Notes Foundation	$5,000	Cultural Heritage	Ij J Roman Family Foundation
317 Main St	$5,000	Performing Arts Schools	Edward H Daveis Benevolent Fund
Musicambia	$5,000	Sec 501(c)(3)organization	Crosby Family Foundation
Bahama Village Music Program	$5,000	Music Program	Larry Dion Foundation Suzanne D Banks Trustee
Highbridge Voices Corporation	$5,000	General Support Donation	Seven Oaks Foundation
The Jazz Bakery Performance Space	$5,000	Charitablecharitable	Owen Cheatham Foundation
Interschool Orchestras of New York	$5,000	General Support	Levitt Foundation / Stephen J Mathes Esq
Chamber Music Society of Detroit	$5,000	Cleveland Quartet Award	Chamber Music America
Symphony of the Americas	$5,000	General Operating	Judith Linnell Foundation
Handel and Haydn Society (H+H)	$5,000	Unrestricted Operating Support	Case Western Reserve University
Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (CCJO)	$5,000	General	Louise Taft Semple Foundation
Colorado Music Festival and Center for Musical Art	$5,000	General Operating Support	The Denver Foundation
Bennie L Williams Spiritual Voices	$5,000	For General Operating Support	The Denver Foundation
Maha Music Festival	$5,000	Donation Used To Further the Mission of the Organization	Midwest Housing Equity Group (MHEG)
Miami Childrens Chorus	$5,000	Program Support	The Miami Foundation
Jazz at Lincoln Center	$5,000	Charitable	Sidney Kohl Family Foundation
Santa Barbara Strings	$5,000	Grant	Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation
Rose Ensemble the	$5,000	Provide Money for Operating Expenses	Filia Foundation
Connoisseur Concerts Association	$5,000	General Support	Johnston-Hanson Foundation
Pampas Tribute To Woody Guthrie	$5,000	Operations	Gray-Pampa Foundation

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Music festivals and events" category for this page is determined by the "A68: Music" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.