IMPACT
IMPACT
OUR IMPACT

The Guitar Center Music Foundation believes that music participation helps people reach the heights of human potential and is foundational to a healthy society.

Through instrument grants and donations, we help ensure schools and music education programs get the resources they need to keep music alive and accessible.

OUR IMPACT

The Guitar Center Music Foundation believes that music participation helps people reach the heights of human potential and is foundational to a healthy society.

Through instrument grants and donations, we help ensure schools and music education programs get the resources they need to keep music alive and accessible.

Total revenue raised for music programs

Music programs supported in 2023

Percentage of Round Up donations given back to the community

Grants given

People impacted through our grants in 2023

States served with instrument grants

Total revenue raised for music programs

Music programs supported in 2023

Percent of Round Up donations given back to the community

Grants given

People impacted through our grants in 2023

States served with instrument grants

OUR PROJECTS
Zendaya

Q3 2024 Grantees Announced (con’t)

Band 4 Kids – Mount Airy, NC
Niswonger Children’s Hospital –  Johnson City, TN
All In Music Inc. – Rochester, NY
Autism Up – Rochester, NY
Girls Make Beats – Miami, FL
Monroe High School – Northridge, CA
New Orleans Jazz MuseumNew Orleans, LA
OmniPeace – Los Angeles, CA
Man Up Club – Minneapolis, MN
Marana High School – Tucson, AZ
Roosevelt High School – Los Angeles, CA     

JULY 2024

Art Rock LA

Q3 2024 Grantees Announced

Youth Trumpet ScholarsOrange County, CA
Veritas Enrichment, Inc. – Kimberling City, MO
Today’s Future Sound – Oakland, CA
Dwavern Tavern – Hamilton, OH
Rosie’s House: A Music Academy – Phoenix, AZ
Rawkstar Youth Development – East Taunton, MA Operation Check Six – Lake Park, MN 
Great Falls Middle School – Montague, MA
Circle Haven – Glassboro, NJ 
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School – Glendale, CA 

JULY 2024

Celebrating Charlie Gabriel's 91st Birthday at Preservation Hall

GCMF Partners with USC to Provide Guitars to South Central Youth

Funded by USC’s Arts in Action initiative, Calle a Calle’s Cultural Music Education Program challenges eurocentrism and supports a cultural movement by providing guitar instruction as well as lessons in the political and social context of Corridos Tumbados, a subgenre of Mexican Regional Music that has recently gained global popularity. The program was held at A Place Called Home, a non-profit serving South Central youth and their families. GCMF donated 16 six-string guitars and 2 acoustic electric bass guitars.

MAY 2024

Zendaya

Q2 2024 Grantees Announced (con’t)

In Tune Music, Inc. in Greensboro, NC
Mariachi La Joya from Las Vegas High School
Mariachi Luz de Oro de Berkeley in Berkeley, CA
Mondays at the Union Rescue Mission in Downtown Los Angeles (pictured above)
Musicians in Action in Los Angeles, CA
Newport Elementary in Newport, CA
NolaKeys in New Orleans, LA
NSAI in Nashville, TN
Orange Vista High School in Perris, CA
Riverside High School in Belle, WV
Second Line Arts in New Orleans, LA
Ted Brown Music in Tacoma, WA
Transit Tech High School in Brooklyn, NY

APRIL 2024

Art Rock LA

Q2 2024 Grantees Announced

Accent Pontiac in Michigan
Bill Caballero Music in San Diego, CA
Brighton High School in Massachusetts
Centennial High School in Urbana, IL
Community Music School in Allentown
Concerts for Causes in Maryland
Corvallis Orchestras in Corvallis, Montana
Daraja Music Initiative in Tanzania
Environmental Charter School in Pittsburgh, PA
Great Heights Academy (pictured above) in Miami, FL
Greenland Band in Greenland, Arkansas
Guitars and Uses in the Classroom  in San Diego
Hellen Caro Elementary in Pensacola, FL
Higher Octave Healing in Tempe, AZ
Hilltop Middle School Mariachi in Ilwaco, WA
Horizon Elementary in Madison, Alabama

APRIL 2024

Celebrating Charlie Gabriel's 91st Birthday at Preservation Hall

Black History Month at West Oakland Middle School

GCMF was one of the organizations contributing to a large-scale charitable effort in Oakland spearheaded by superstar actor and singer Zendaya. The project began as an effort to rejuvenate the basketball courts and grew in scope to include the neighboring middle school. The school received a $5,000 grant and a brand new curtain for their auditorium which was revealed for this special Black History performance. 

FEBRUARY 2024

Zendaya

Q1 2024 Grantees Announced (con’t)

New Urban Arts in Providence, RI
Orting Middle School in Orting, Washington
PS 11 Parent Teacher Association in Brooklyn, NY
Shenandoah High School in Shenandoah, Iowa
Sherwood Elementary in Sandy Spring, MD
Silver Creek High School in San Jose, CA
Summit Academy & New Outlook Academy (pictured above) in Pennsylvania     
The Artist Mentorship Program (AMP) in Portland, OR
Trinity Middle School in Washington, Pennsylvania
Unatego Elementary School in Unadilla, NY

FEBRUARY 2024

Art Rock LA

Q1 2024 Grantees Announced

Baltimore Classical Guitar Society, Inc. (pictured above) in Maryland 
Braxton County High School in West Virginia
Chesterfield-Ruby Middle School in South Carolina
Enedina B. Guerra in Edinburg, TX
Ford Blvd Elementary in East Los Angeles, CA
Graham School in Mount Vernon, NY
Guitars Antiqua Music Program in Lennox, CA
Hodges Elementary School in Balch Springs, TX
HY Livesay Middle School/ Powell Valley Elementary
My Chapel in Pasadena, TX

FEBRUARY 2024

Celebrating Charlie Gabriel's 91st Birthday at Preservation Hall

Guitar Center Supports Musicians Affected by the Fires in Maui

Guitar Center offered a matching grant up to $25K to support local musicians and organizations who had instruments destroyed in the fires in Maui. We raised over $100K in efforts to help out the local community in Maui and help get musicians back on their feet and playing music.

Ukulele Project Hawaii pictured above.

DECEMBER 2023

Art Rock LA

Q3 2023 Grantees Announced

Vineland Public Charter School in New Jersey
John F. Kennedy, Jr. School in New York
The Bridge Ministries in Virginia
P.R.I.D.E. Inc in Massachusetts
Guitars over Guns in Chicago, IL
Michael Allen Harrison’s Play it Forward in Oregon
CreatiVets in Nashville, TN
Modesto Gospel Mission in California
Urban Voices Project in Skid Row Los Angeles, CA
Second Line Arts Collective in New Orleans

OCTOBER 2023

Celebrating Charlie Gabriel's 91st Birthday at Preservation Hall

Hispanic Heritage Month

GCMF was featured on Good Morning America for making grants to three different mariachi programs across the country. Mariachi programs are becoming more and more popular in music education. 

Davis Bilingual Magnet School in Tucson
Springfield High School in Oregon
Kipp Sol Academy in East Los Angeles (pictured above)

SEPTEMBER 2023

“Music has helped this population not only help themselves but it has given them a community where their shared experience of having a cancer diagnosis isn’t what binds them, it’s the love of music.”

– GCMF Grantee

MEDIA

September 12, 2024

CAA and Casey Wasserman’s Foundation Team on School Day Drive to Support Teachers, Students

   

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August 24, 2024

Industry Profile: Herb Trawick of Pensado's Place

   

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August 19, 2024

Purple Rain / Purple Haze Custom-Painted Guitar

   

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May 29, 2024

Accent Pontiac Receives Band Instruments Donations

   

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April 9, 2024

Ernie Isley Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Center Music Foundation

   

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April 6, 2024

Ernie Isley Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Guitar Center Music Foundation

   

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MEDIA
September 12, 2024

CAA and Casey Wasserman’s Foundation Team on School Day Drive to Support Teachers, Students

HOLLYWOOD REPORTERLEARN MORE

August 24, 2024

Industry Profile: Herb Trawick of Pensado’s Place

MUSIC CONNECTIONLEARN MORE

August 19, 2024

Purple Rain / Purple Haze Custom-Painted Guitar

MUSIC CONNECTIONLEARN MORE

May 29, 2024

Accent Pontiac Receives Band Instruments Donations

THE OAKLAND PRESSLEARN MORE

April 9, 2024

Ernie Isley Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Center Music Foundation

EURWEB.COMLEARN MORE

April 6, 2024

Ernie Isley Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Guitar Center Music Foundation

BILLBOARDLEARN MORE

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