Children’s Music Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to bringing Music Therapy into the lives of sick children to help overcome pain, fear and anxiety.

Based in Los Angeles, Children’s Music Fund serves as a national pillar in the Music Therapy world, serving thousands of pediatric patients and hospitals. Dr. Raffi Tachdjian (allergist & pediatric pain specialist) founded the organization in 2002, after he was inspired by a patient during his pediatric residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. That patient, Justin, was a guitar virtuoso who had failed his last round of experimental treatment for bone cancer. As a musician himself, Dr. Tachdjian understood the therapeutic benefits of music, knowing that music had to be a focus of Justin’s treatment. Unable to find any musical instruments in the hospital, Dr. Tachdjian went out of his way to buy Justin a guitar to facilitate this treatment. From that moment on, he was determined to raise funds to purchase musical instruments and later to provide Music Therapy, healing through music, one child at a time.