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ASCAP FOUNDATION

EIN 51-0181769 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2025
$3,284,932
Expenses 2025
$1,376,076

Program services were 72.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A60J
Classification
2000
Street
250 WEST 57TH STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The ASCAP Foundation is dedicated to nurturing the music talent of tomorrow, preserving the legacy of the past and sustaining the creative incentive for today's music creators through a variety of educational, professional and humanitarian programs and activities that serve the entire music community.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The ASCAP Foundation is dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their development through music education and talent development programs including songwriting workshops, scholarships, awards, community outreach and grants to other 501(c)(3) organizations for music education.

  • SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND COMPOSER PROGRAM: The ASCAP Foundation scholarship programs seek to ensure that opportunities for the study of music and instruments, songwriting, music composition, the business of music and related areas are available to students at all levels by providing Scholarships to 38 recipients ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. The ASCAP Foundation provides awards to emerging composers and songwriters consisting of cash awards to 90 recipients of composer and / or lyricist programs. These awards range from $125 - $10,000.

    Expenses $448,172 · Grants $298,075

  • MUSIC EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY OURTREACH: The ASCAP Foundation is dedicated to nurturing the music talent of tomorrow by developing and supporting educational programs that provide effective learning opportunities consistent with our mission to students of all ages. The ASCAP Foundation has provided funding to support 17 Music Education and / or Development programs throughout the year with the goal of enhancing and promoting music education and providing the community with access to music and its history. These 17 programs include 10 that received $5,000 or more in funding and 7 programs that received less $5,000.

    Expenses $253,520 · Grants $107,747

  • TALENT DEVELOPMENT: The ASCAP Foundation Talent Development programs provide aid and encouragement to music creators nationally who are in various stages of their careers including: Workshops (12); Commissioning programs (3); and sponsorship of talent development programs, (9). By providing professional opportunities to emerging composers, lyricists and songwriters, The ASCAP Foundation supports their careers and promotes their works.

    Expenses $211,384 · Grants $84,327

  • Other program services include 4 humanitarian programs that includes music therapy programs for veterans with PTSD; Aphasia patients; students on the autism spectrum and other program support expenses.

    Expenses $82,116 · Grants $18,500

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Joan Hill

    Sr. Director of Finance and Administration

    Total calculated
    $211,137
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $187,556
    Other
    $23,581
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $173,936 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $9,177 related
    Other
    $0 + $4,443 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $21,163 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $2,418 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $211,137 related

  • Paul Williams

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Irwin Robinson

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dean Kay

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Alex Shapiro

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Charles Bernstein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Bruce Broughton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Tita Cahn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Desmond Child

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Dan Foliart

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • James Kendrick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Tania Leon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Michelle Lewis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • James McBride

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Roger McNulty

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Marcus Miller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Betsy Perez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Michael Price

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Stephen Schwartz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Valerie Simpson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Doug Wood

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25

  • Nicole George-Middleton

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10 + 40 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,284,932
    Expenses
    $1,376,076
    Contributions
    $2,124,782
    Grants paid
    $508,649
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,516,540
    Expenses
    $1,492,838
    Contributions
    $1,766,550
    Grants paid
    $521,975
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,523,948
    Expenses
    $1,796,779
    Contributions
    $2,346,347
    Grants paid
    $546,529
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,913,648
    Expenses
    $1,324,923
    Contributions
    $1,309,988
    Grants paid
    $484,056

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,347,991
    Expenses
    $1,197,699
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,313,289

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,380,701
    Expenses
    $1,275,129
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,945,196

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2025 return

  • ASCAP

    C · Music Licensing · NY · 0% owned

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.