Music Makes Miracles Inc.

What Music Makes Miracles Inc. does

Music Makes Miracles Foundation, Inc. is a Georgia-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2022 by Kaleigh Griswell to deliver music-based fine arts stimulation to children from infancy through high school graduation. Its core program distributes classical music samples developed by Dr. Andreas Vollenweider and a team of neurologists in 2019 — music clinically shown to support cognitive development in premature infants — to parents of newborns via playlist cards and CDs supplied to participating NICU and maternity wards. The foundation's stated mission is to initiate and maintain fine arts stimulation across the full childhood arc, and to advocate with administrators and lawmakers for more time and resources directed at fine arts programs.

The organization operates two product lines. The first, Music Makes Miracles (MMM), supplies participating hospitals with playlist cards and CDs containing Vollenweider's samples for parents to play for their newborns; current distribution is limited to two locations within Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (Scottish Rite and Hughes-Spalding). The second, MMM Beyond, is a sister program that coordinates with local fine arts educators to supply instruments and activities to K-12 school music programs. The foundation also publishes Vollenweider's music study tracks on Spotify and Apple Music under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 license, and links to the underlying PNAS study. Distribution is currently regional (Georgia only), with stated intent to expand nationally.

The business model is donation-driven. The foundation accepts charitable contributions through PayPal and credit/debit cards, and accepts in-kind donations of instruments and equipment for redistribution to schools. It is volunteer-driven, with no disclosed headcount, no product sales, no enterprise contracts, and no public revenue figures. Its website is hosted on GoDaddy Website Builder and its digital presence includes Instagram. Key strategic partners include Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (hospital distribution) and local K-12 music educators (via MMM Beyond); the program originated from a 2019 student project at Harris County High School under the mentorship of Band Director Miranda Carlsen.

Name

Music Makes Miracles Inc.

Legal name

Music Makes Miracles Foundation, Inc.

Website

https://musicmmiraclesfoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Music Makes Miracles Foundation is a Georgia-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that distributes clinically-validated classical music to NICU and maternity wards and instruments to K-12 music programs, serving newborns, parents, hospitals, and schools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Music Education Nonprofits

NAICS

Fine Arts Schools (61161), Fine Arts Schools (611610), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Musical Instruments (3931)

akta.pro primary industry

Early Childhood Music Education (Ages 0–7) (EDAMANAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Music Instruction (Instrumental & Vocal) (EDAMAAAE), Creative Arts, Music & Movement Content (EDAGACAG)

Keywords

• Childhood music education
• Music stimulation therapy
• Nonprofit arts foundation
• NICU fine arts programs
• K-12 music resources

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization accepting charitable donations. Receives donations via PayPal and credit/debit cards. Also accepts instrument and equipment donations for schools and music programs.

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Core offering

Music Makes Miracles Foundation promotes childhood development by providing music-based fine arts resources to newborns and K-12 students. The foundation supplies participating hospitals' NICU and maternity wards with playlist cards and CDs containing classical music samples developed by Dr. Andreas Vollenweider, and extends music education support to K-12 schools through its MMM Beyond program by supplying instruments and activities.

Product overview

The Music Makes Miracles Foundation operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on fine arts stimulation from infancy through high school. The core offering consists of Music Makes Miracles (MMM), which provides hospitals with playlist cards and CDs of classical music for newborns in NICU and maternity wards, based on Dr. Andreas Vollenweider's neurological research. The sister program MMM Beyond extends this mission to K-12 education by partnering with local music educators to supply instruments and activities. Resources include the Vollenweider study music available via Spotify and Apple Music.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MMM Beyond: Sister program that communicates and coordinates with local music educators to help alleviate financial lapses and supply instruments and activities to their programs.

Products and services

• Music Makes Miracles (MMM) Hospital Program A program that supplies participating hospitals' NICU and maternity wards with playlist cards and CDs containing classical music samples developed by Dr. Andreas Vollenweider, designed to support premature babies' brain development. Parents receive these materials to play music for their newborns.
• MMM Beyond K-12 School Program A sister program that coordinates with local music educators to help alleviate financial lapses and supply instruments and activities to K-12 school music programs.
• Andreas Vollenweider Music Study Resources Open-access music tracks from Dr. Andreas Vollenweider's 2019 study on premature babies' brain development, made available to parents for use with their children.

Quantifiable outcome

• Significant brain development in premature babies exposed to the music

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (Scottish Rite and Hughes-Spalding)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipating hospital locations where Music Makes Miracles Foundation distributes fine arts materials to parents of newborns. The foundation provides playlist cards and CDs containing Vollenweider music samples for infant cognitive development.
• Local Music Educators (via MMM Beyond)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMMM Beyond program coordinates with local fine arts educators to help alleviate financial lapses and supply instruments and activities to music programs.
• Harris County High School Band ProgramminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUnder Band Director Miranda Carlsen's mentorship, the original Music Makes Miracles project was developed as a student project.

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Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Musicians On Call: Musicians On Call brings live and recorded music to patients in hospitals, including pediatric and NICU settings, as a nonprofit music-in-healthcare program. Like Music Makes Miracles, it leverages partnerships with hospital systems to deliver music to patients and families at the bedside.
• VH1 Save The Music Foundation: VH1 Save The Music Foundation is a nonprofit that supplies instruments, resources, and grants to K-12 school music programs, closely mirroring the MMM Beyond arm. Both organizations address chronic underfunding of K-12 music education through donations of instruments and program support.
• Music & Memory: Music & Memory is a nonprofit that brings personalized music to people in healthcare settings, often via digital streaming and playlists, conceptually similar to Music Makes Miracles' model of distributing curated music samples through digital and physical channels to clinical populations.
• Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation: Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation donates musical instruments and equipment to schools and music programs in need, directly overlapping with MMM Beyond's instrument-supply mission to K-12 programs facing budget shortfalls.
• Keep Music Education: Keep Music Education is an advocacy nonprofit that pushes for sustained funding and resources for school music programs. It is comparable to the foundation's stated advocacy role to "cooperate with local administration and lawmakers to advocate for more time and resources" toward fine arts programs.
• Sing for Hope: Sing for Hope is a nonprofit deploying artists and arts resources to healthcare, education, and community settings, including hospital programs. It overlaps with Music Makes Miracles on the music-in-healthcare and arts-access dimensions across both hospital and school touchpoints.
• Little Kids Rock: Little Kids Rock is a nonprofit that partners with K-12 schools to provide music education, instruments, and teacher training, primarily in under-resourced communities. It is directly comparable to the MMM Beyond program's mission of alleviating K-12 music program funding shortfalls.
• Carnegie Hall Lullaby Project: Carnegie Hall's Lullaby Project partners with pregnant women, new parents, and newborns (including in NICU and maternal-health settings) to write and sing personalized lullabies, directly mirroring Music Makes Miracles' newborn music-stimulation mission. Both organizations bridge clinical/early-childhood settings with music as a developmental intervention.

Others

• Sweet Relief Musicians Fund: Sweet Relief Musicians Fund is a nonprofit that provides financial assistance and resources to musicians in need. It is thematically adjacent as a music-focused nonprofit but does not directly overlap with MMM's infant stimulation or K-12 music program missions.

Broad incumbents

• National Association for Music Education (NAfME): NAfME is the largest national professional association advocating for music education across all K-12 levels, providing curriculum, advocacy, and resource infrastructure. It is a broader incumbent in the same advocacy space as MMM Beyond, though it operates at industry scale rather than as a direct service provider.

Market position

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Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/musicmmiraclesfoundation
• Facebookfacebook.com/MusicMMiraclesFoundation

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