Daily Featured Foundation - 12/29/25

12/29/2025

Here is today’s featured foundation.

The Aaron Copland Fund for Music

Website: https://coplandfund.org/

Mission & Purpose: To encourage and improve the public knowledge and appreciation of contemporary American music. Established by the famous composer Aaron Copland, the fund is dedicated to ensuring that new music is recorded, performed, and heard.

Broad Funding Guidelines: This is a national foundation based in New York. They have very specific grant programs: Recording Program (to document music) and Performance Program (for ensembles). They do not fund general music education or orchestras playing standard repertoire (like Beethoven). They fund 501(c)(3) organizations dedicated to living or recent American composers.

Featured Opportunity: The "Recording Program" is one of the few grants in the country that pays for the high costs of commercial recordings. If you are a chamber ensemble or orchestra that wants to record an album of works by living American composers, this grant covers studio time, musician fees, and production costs.

Recommendation: A professional chamber music ensemble or small orchestra anywhere in the U.S. that specializes in new music and wants to record an album for commercial release.