Non-Profits
Women in Music is the industry's leading non-profit working to advance the awareness, equality, diversity, heritage, opportunities, and cultural aspects of women in the musical arts through education, support, empowerment, and recognition. Founded in 1985, WIM is now fueled by 100+ volunteers working daily to serve thousands worldwide, with chapters from LA to India.
They are a movement of artists, musicians, food makers, and music lovers on a mission to end hunger in underserved communities nationwide. They are a movement of artists, musicians, food makers, and music lovers on a mission to end hunger in underserved communities nationwide. Their alliance empowers young people to make a tangible difference in the lives of kids and families in need.
In 1992, Jeff Campbell organized a street musician concert to benefit the homeless and within three years he formed a non-profit organization called Hungry For Music, dedicated to expanding opportunities in music for children. Since then, Hungry for Music has placed more than 11,000 instruments in the hands of aspiring musicians – children whose trajectory has been forever altered by the life-changing gift of music. They have delivered anything from trombones and violins to xylophones and guitars to children in 49 states and 25 countries.
The Music Maker Relief Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit, was founded to preserve the musical traditions of the South by directly supporting the musicians who make it, ensuring their voices will not be silenced by poverty and time. Music Maker will give future generations access to their heritage through documentation and performance programs that build knowledge and appreciation of America’s musical traditions.
After several tragedies struck the music industry in 2019, dozens of music professionals got together to start Backline, an industry-wide mental health initiative. The organization connects artists, music professionals and their families with mental health and wellness resources. Backline partners with a number of health and wellness organizations including Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, SIMS Foundation, and Entertainment Health Services, to name a few. The collective is supported by some well-known names in the music industry, including Circles Around The Sun, Umphrey’s McGee, Cloud 9 Adventures, HeadCount and more.
Love Light + Melody serves vulnerable children by amplifying their stories, inspiring hope for them through music, art and sports, and transforming their lives through education. LL+M was originally founded in 2007 by musician Brad Corrigan to raise funds and awareness for a community of children living and working in the La Chureca trash dump community in Managua, Nicaragua. Since then LL+M’s focus has been on raising awareness for these children in Nicaragua through a film project called Ileana’s Smile.
YOR’s education, music, and community programs are designed to help young people become more free, more rooted in their personal power, and better able to thrive in spite of systems and circumstances that dis-empower and marginalize them.
YOR designs and implements strengths-based, music-centered programs intended to equip young people from historically under-resources communities with skills needed to find success in life by advancing their academic success, increasing their economic opportunities and career skills, and strengthening their community connections and networks.
Musicians Foundation provides aid that enables performers, educators, composers, and arrangers to continue pursuing their artistic process and vision. As the oldest non-profit of its kind in the United States, Musicians Foundation is dedicated to assisting musicians and their families in times of emergency, crisis, or transition. Their goal is to relieve the financial burdens of musicians who qualify according to the Foundation’s criteria.
The IBMA is the non-profit music association that connects, educates, and empowers bluegrass professionals and enthusiasts, honoring tradition and encouraging innovation in the bluegrass community worldwide.
We consider it our civic duty and a privilege to champion local artists and invest in the essential creative process that drives their art forth and touches all of us, in every corner of our community. That creative energy is the foundation on which the future will be built.
3Arts works to sustain and promote artists in the six-county Chicago metropolitan area. Our focus on women artists, artists of color, and Deaf and disabled artists stems from the need for a diversity of voices and visions to be supported if our city is to prosper and inspire.
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems. In other words, Healing Musicians in Need. We all have received so much out of music, it's time to give a little back!
Lift Music Fund, unlike other scholarship organizations, helps BIPOC student musicians afford the incidental and hidden costs such as necessary equipment, lessons, and other expenses to advance their musical training.
Lift Music Fund also provides informational resources to help students navigate the path toward a career in music and a community of support for young musicians as they work to achieve their goals.
We believe that music is at the center of what it means to be alive. Live Music Society seeks to support initiatives that promote and preserve the performance and experience of live music in our society.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s grants will give priority to small music venues – to help them survive through this crisis and to thrive once again when they are able to open their doors. Live Music Society will be awarding grants to small music venues to assist them through these challenging times of closure, and to support their creative ideas in re-opening, so that they can once again do what they do best – connect musicians and their community.
Sound Bridge Music is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation incorporated in 2017 in Longmont, Colorado. The organization was founded as a grassroots effort to use the power of music to make a positive difference in communities across the Front Range. Harnessing the talents of local musicians, Sound Bridge Music connects artists with opportunities to bring music to those in need of the unique comfort, empowerment, healing and sense of belonging that only music can provide.
Embracing Imagination, Creativity, Innovation, and Spirit
Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, Bohemian Foundation is a private family foundation that supports local, national, and global efforts to build strong communities.
Founded in 2001 by philanthropist Pat Stryker, Bohemian Foundation takes its name and inspiration from the bohemian movement of 19th century Europe.
We believe that by working together, we can build stronger communities.
Our four program areas are Community, Music, Global, and Civic. In each of these areas, we work to impact communities through our grantmaking, Foundation-directed programs, and events. Pat Stryker, Joe Zimlich, and Cheryl Zimlich serve as our board of directors.
Fear No Music promotes music education through the high quality public performance of modern and contemporary classical music, and by offering groundbreaking youth mentorship in composition.
Comprised of some of Oregon's most talented performers, this flexible chamber music ensemble promotes living composers and introduces audiences to new music being made both locally and globally with its uniquely relevant Annual Concert Series. The group educates and trains the next generation of young composers by way of the Young Composers Project. As a public advocate for global peace and equity, Fear No Music leverages its platforms for healing, activism and social justice.
Music Box Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization committed to creating programs designed to give students the opportunities to train in the field of music education and cultural arts.
We believe all children, no matter where they live, where they go to school, or what special needs they may have, deserve to have a music education. Music Box Foundation believes that music has the power to unify and strengthen our communities and provide inspiration and purpose to our youth. Music can ignite a passion for learning, keep children off the streets, and provide an exciting and lucrative career path.