Music Making Grants
Music Making Grants
The NAMM Foundation accepts Music Program Grant applications from 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organizations and their international equivalents to support Participatory Music Making and Career Mobility, benefiting historically underrepresented communities or groups. The application period for Round 1 opens on March 3 and closes on April 4, 2025.
Funding Priorities
Participatory Music Making. High-quality, hands-on, relevant music-making, music-training, that is, or will be, a permanent part of an organization’s annual programming and serve, or will serve, an established cohort of participants that engage with the program regularly.
Career Mobility. Career Mobility is career development for youth or adults in any area of the music industry. Commercial (e.g. production, recording, live event, instrument makers, retail, etc.) musicians, and teaching artists.
Nonprofit Management Institute
The NAMM Foundation's Music Making Program Grants are one aspect of the Foundation's activities. We invite and encourage you to participate in the Foundation's Nonprofit Management Institute, which offers educational opportunities to advance nonprofit organizations. The institute offers a series of progressive sessions that cover best practices, fundraising and governance and more. The program provides a certificate of completion to partner and grantee organizations, as well as to musical nonprofits that complete the series. Learn more here.