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Top 25 Music instruction nonprofits based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 114 music instruction nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,175 professional contacts across them, including 495 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers music instruction nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest music instruction nonprofits based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mission: Old Town School of Folk Music teaches and celebrates music and cultural expressions rooted in the traditions of diverse American and global communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Merit School of Music is dedicated to helping young people transform their lives by removing barriers to a high-quality music education, with nearly 70 percent of students…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The People's Music School is Chicago's oldest and largest 100% tuition-free music school.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Uniting Voices Chicago (Josephine Lee, President) is a nonprofit organization that inspires and unites youth from diverse backgrounds to become global leaders through music.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SkyART provides youth with an accessible safe place to participate in quality visual arts programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras’ mission is to inspire and cultivate personal excellence through music.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “New Music School trains, develops and manages young artists through a five-level curriculum in Chicago and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Urban Gateways delivers high-quality arts programs led by trained and experienced professional artists in music, dance, theater, literary arts, visual arts, and digital media to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Intonation works with the youth of Chicago to experience making music on their own terms, leading to personal growth and the enrichment of their communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Music has been taught the same way since Mozart’s generation… and we are here to change it!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The World Music Foundation is a 501 ©(3) non-profit organization dedicated to provide distinctive, global, musical performance and education to urban and rural youth across 9…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FAME Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to music and art education for children and adults.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UpBeat Music and Arts is a Chicago-based non-profit, helping youth reach their fullest potential through music.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ChiME’s vision is to achieve a higher level of humanity through music.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Access Contemporary Music is a non-profit organization with the mission of bringing musical creativity to life every day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “An award-winning nonprofit that provides arts education to children unable to attend school because of chronic or serious illness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MUSICAL ARTS INSTITUTE is a music company based out of 9244 S LAFAYTTE AVE, CHICAGO, Illinois, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our training program was developed to help young artists fine-tune their unique skills.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An arts education organization founded through city-wide collaboration, Ingenuity serves as Chicago's single hub of information, advocacy, strategy, and partnerships to reinstate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “You found us because it is time to love your voice and let it be free.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As the ChiArts Foundation concluded operations on June 30, 2026, this page remains available as a public archive of our mission, impact, and history.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Impacting Lives Through The Power of Musical Arts, Movement, and Enrichment Education Learn from the most passionate artist-teachers in the nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stages Chicago is an arts education program founded in 2016 that is dedicated to bringing the highest quality, developmentally appropriate performing arts experiences to children…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Classical Kids Music Education was formed for charitable and educational purposes to contribute to the education and quality of life of children and their parents across cultural…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: music instruction nonprofits. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names music instruction nonprofits.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of music instruction nonprofits, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name music instruction nonprofits. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Music instruction nonprofits based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 114 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among music instruction nonprofits, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “music instruction nonprofits”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names music instruction nonprofits), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among music instruction nonprofits, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 495 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Music instruction nonprofits by metro in the United States
- Music instruction nonprofits in New York237
- Music instruction nonprofits in Los Angeles136
- Music instruction nonprofits in Chicago114
- Music instruction nonprofits in Houston63
- Music instruction nonprofits in San Francisco60
- Music instruction nonprofits in Austin59
- Music instruction nonprofits in Philadelphia59
- Music instruction nonprofits in Seattle54
- Music instruction nonprofits in Atlanta53
- Music instruction nonprofits in Portland51
- Music instruction nonprofits in Boston48
- Music instruction nonprofits in San Diego47
- Music instruction nonprofits in Nashville45
- Music instruction nonprofits in Dallas43
- Music instruction nonprofits in Miami39
- Music instruction nonprofits in Washington39
- Music instruction nonprofits in Denver37
- Music instruction nonprofits in San Jose34
- Music instruction nonprofits in Phoenix32
- Music instruction nonprofits in Brooklyn28
- Music instruction nonprofits in Cincinnati27
- Music instruction nonprofits in Las Vegas27
- Music instruction nonprofits in New Orleans27
- Music instruction nonprofits in Oakland26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names music instruction nonprofits, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many music instruction nonprofits are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 114 music instruction nonprofits headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
OLD Town School Of Folk Music, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most music instruction nonprofits?
New York leads with 237 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (136) and Chicago (114).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 495 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 114 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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