ACMP Grants at a Glance

ACMP Foundation awarded a total of $199,938 USD in its 2024 fiscal year (August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2024), distributed over five grant programs.

Workshops and Community Music: $175,745
Play-In: $10,998
Home Coaching: $9,360
Just Play: $2000
Impresario: $1,835

Workshops and Community Music:

Of these five programs, Workshops and Community Music is an annual competitive grant through which ACMP supports organizers providing chamber music education to adult amateurs and youth, including but not limited to workshops, camps, and ongoing chamber music programs at community music schools. In the 2024 cycle, we received 191 applications and were able to fund 66% (126.) 

The FY25 Chamber Music Workshop and Community Music application period is still open, with a deadline of January 15, 2025.

See a list of recent Workshops and Community Music grantees

ACMP’s other four programs are evaluated on a rolling basis:

Play-In grants are awarded to organizations and individuals in support of big public Play-Ins, which are key to ACMP’s mission of chamber music for pleasure.

Home Coaching and Just Play grants directly benefit individual ACMP members with a profile in the ACMP Directory of Chamber Musicians. These grants are two of the many perks of being a part of our growing community of passionate chamber musicians! If you haven’t already, please join ACMP. (Membership is free!)

Impresario is a new grant helping organizations such as local chamber music clubs and community orchestras produce a multiple-ensemble adult amateur chamber music concert featuring their members and guests.

Grant spending by country and age group

The geographic distribution of ACMP’s grant spending is almost on a par with our membership demographics. We allocated 17% ($33,830) of our grant dollars to international programs and individuals, while 19% of our membership is international.

As the only foundation in the world with a grants program benefiting amateur chamber music, ACMP allocated 66% ($131,218) of its grants budget to programs benefiting adult amateur chamber players. ACMP bolstered the next generation of chamber musicians by allocating 34% ($68,720) of its budget to youth programs. 

Our impact 

Participants served by country and age group

ACMP’s grant programs touched the lives of an estimated 6391 chamber music players in 16 countries. (Participant numbers are gathered from grant applications and final reports.) 

Again, closely mirroring ACMP’s membership demographics, 16% (992) of those participants were international, and 84% (5399) were in the United States of America. 

62% of total participants served were adult amateur musicians, and 38% were youth (18 years old and under). 

Our supporters

A generous bequest from Clinton B. Ford in 1992 formed the basis of ACMP’s Endowment, which, alongside regular individual contributions and further charitable bequests, supports the world’s only grants program for amateur chamber music.

See below for the complete list of our individual donors over our 2024 fiscal year (August 1, 2023 – July 31, 2024.)

All of these wonderful things are possible because of members like you. 

We thank all of our generous donors for their continued support!

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