Grants awarded
Who does Gibson Gives fund?
Gibson Gives has awarded $7.2 million across 694 grants to 554 grantees between 2020 and 2025. Its giving concentrates in arts & culture. Its typical grant is $4,799, with most between $2,799 and $9,097. Repeat grantees receive a median $6,448 versus $3,872 for first-time grantees.
Total awarded
$7.2M
Typical grant
$5K
Grantees
554
Grants
694
Years
2020–2025
Organizations this funder supports
Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.
| Grantee | Total received | Grants | Years | Latest | State | Support |
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Save the Music Foundation
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$402K | 7 | 2021–2025 | 2025 | NY | |
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$362K | 7 | 2020–2025 | 2025 | CA | |
| G Gibson Gives - Play IT Forward Program | $343K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Guitars for Vets INC
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$257K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | WI | |
The Guitar Center Music Foundation
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$214K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | CA | |
Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation
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$163K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | PA | |
| M Musicares | $151K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$132K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | MN | |
Playing for Change Foundation
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$100K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | CA | |
Nashville Symphony Association
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$94K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | TN | |
| J John Lennon Educational Tour Bus | $91K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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$83K | 4 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | FL | |
| T The Caverns Sessions (pbs) | $80K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$79K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
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$75K | 2 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | TN | |
Acm Lifting Lives
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$66K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | CA | |
Grammy Museum Foundation INC
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$65K | 2 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Give a Note Foundation INC
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$61K | 4 | 2022–2025 | 2025 | IN | |
Second Line Arts Collective
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$60K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | LA | |
| M Music Forward Foundation | $58K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| W Women Who Rock INC | $58K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | TN | |
| W Williamson County Board of | $49K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| W Williamson County Board of Education | $49K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| W Williamson County Board of Education | $47K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| W Women Who Rock Magee-Womens Research Institute Foundation | $45K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation INC
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$45K | 3 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | FL | |
Nvak INC
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$45K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
| L Launch Pad Foundation | $44K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Farm Aid INC
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$43K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | MA | |
The Night Stalker Foundation INC
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$42K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | KY | |
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$42K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | TN | |
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$39K | 4 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | GA | |
The Midnight Mission
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$39K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | CA | |
Oz Arts INC
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$36K | 5 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | TN | |
| M Music Has Healing Power | $36K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | CA | |
| I Individual recipient | $35K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$35K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | MA | |
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$35K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | TN | |
Music Health Alliance INC
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$33K | 4 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | TN | |
Friends of American Song Archives INC
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$32K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | OK | |
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$31K | 2 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | TN | |
| T Transylvanian Symphony Foundation INC | $30K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | OK | |
The National Museum of African American Music
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$30K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | TN | |
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library INC
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$30K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | IN | |
| C Country Music Hall of Fame | $30K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$30K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | TN | |
Music Heals International
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$29K | 3 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | CA | |
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$29K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | TN | |
Point Park University
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$28K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | PA | |
Armenia Fund INC
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$27K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| I Individual recipient | $26K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute INC
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$26K | 2 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | WV | |
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$25K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | NJ | |
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$25K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | CA | |
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$25K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | NY | |
Ukulele Kids Club INC
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$25K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | MA | |
| T The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $24K | 2 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $21K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Guitars Not Guns
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$21K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | CO | |
| D Dasventures Ltd the John Lennon Songwriting Contest | $20K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| N Note 4 Notes Chamber Corporation | $20K | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | CA | |
| N Namm Foundation | $20K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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$20K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | CA | |
| N Namiorg | $20K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| M Musicians for Overdose Prevention (mop) | $20K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
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$20K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | NY | |
| I Individual recipient | $19K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
Musicians Empowerment Collective
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$18K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | CA | |
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$18K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | TX | |
Muscle Shoals Songwriters Foundation
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$18K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | AL | |
| H Horseshoe Music Festival - Jackson Hole WY | $18K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| B Belmont University - Curb College | $18K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| S Songs on the Frio INC | $18K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | TX | |
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
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$18K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | NY | |
| I Individual recipient | $17K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$17K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | WA | |
| L Leaving a Positive Legacy INC Via | $17K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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$17K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | NV | |
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$16K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | NJ | |
| T Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation | $16K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | TN | |
Musicians on Call INC
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$16K | 3 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | TN | |
| M Metro Nashville Police Department | $16K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $16K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $16K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| M Muscle Shoals Music Association INC | $16K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | AL | |
| I Individual recipient | $16K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| S Solace for Hope | $15K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | CA | |
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$15K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | CA | |
Vail Valley Foundation INC
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$15K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | CO | |
| I Individual recipient | $15K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
Birthplace of Country Music INC
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$15K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | TN | |
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$15K | 3 | 2023–2025 | 2025 | AR | |
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$15K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | NY | |
| M Music Amplifies | $15K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | TN | |
| N Nashville Blues and Roots Alliance | $15K | 2 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | TN | |
| T The American Cancer Society | $15K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| M Magee-Womens Research Institute & | $15K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| B Blue Sage Center for the Arts | $14K | 1 | 2025 | 2025 | — | — |
| T Troy Andrews Foundation DBA Trombone Shorty Foundation | $14K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $14K | 3 | 2024–2025 | 2025 | — | — |
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