Crescendo Academy of Music is a nonprofit organization with funding support from the Irving S. Gilmore Foundation, the Burdick-Thorne Foundation, the Sylvia and Lawrence Wong Foundation, the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo and individual donors striving to make music accessible to all through need based scholarships. The Academy provides services to all children and adults without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, weight, height, handicap, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or marital status.