Angel

($10,000+)

• Cindy Baucom (Terry Baucom Bluegrass Education Grant)
• Katy Daley & Bill Brown (Katy Daley Broadcast Media/Sound Engineering Scholarship, Sally Ann Forrester Scholarship, IBMA Bluegrass College Scholarship, Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Benjamin Gilmore estate (Fletcher Bright grants, Sally Ann Forrester Scholarship, Arnold Shultz Fund)
• Laurie Greenberg (In memory of Joy Bartenstein, Gloria Belle Scholarship, Fletcher Bright Grant for Young Musicians, Bluegrass College Band networking event at WOB 2025)
• Jim & Kathy Kortge (Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship)
• Howard Parker (Mike Auldridge Memorial Scholarship)
• Mark Schuster (includes Fletcher Bright and Terry Baucom Education Grants, Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Susan Stephenson (Bill Breen Bluegrass Youth Education Fund, in memory of Bill Breen, supporting individual bluegrass education grants, project grants, and Bluegrass in the Schools Mini-grants)
• John & Trisha Tubbs (in honor of Fred Bartenstein and in memory of Joy Bartenstein, includes IBMA Foundation, Arnold Shultz Fund, Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship, Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award, and Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025) 

Multi-Platinum

($5,000-$9,999)

• Anonymous (Biscuits for Bluegrass sponsor 2025)
• Timothy P. Connell (Bluegrass in the Schools Mini-grant sponsor)
• Donald Joeph DeSalvo (in honor of Peter Salovey’s board service)
• Eppes-Jefferson Foundation (IBMA Foundation Info Video 2026)
• The Relgalf Foundation, George Matthews

Platinum

($1,000-$4,999)

• Anonymous, Santa Cruz, California Community Foundation DAF Fund (Arnold Shultz Fund)
• Claire Armbruster & Jeff Kontz
• Keith Barnacastle, Turnberry Records (Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025 sponsor)
• Jerry Barush
• City of Big Stone Gap, Virginia and Blue HIghway (guitar raffle at Blue Highway Fest)
• Sam Blumenthal
• Dr. Richard Brown (includes Arnold Shultz Fund, Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Nancy Cardwell  
• David and Laura Cole, The Marguerite Cole Foundation
• Paolo Dettwiler (Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award – 2025 & 2026 sponsor)
• Mary Tyler Doub
• Malcolm Edwards
• Robert Forrester (Sally Ann Forrester Scholarship)
• Elizabeth (Lizzer) and Scott Graham (Fletcher Bright grants)
• Tom and Barb Laing

Gold

($750-$999)

Silver

($500-$749)

• Darin and Brooke Aldridge (Terry Baucom Bluegrass Education Grant, in memory of Joe Ackerman)
• Fred Bartenstein (Includes Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship, Arnold Shultz Fund)
• Kissy Black (includes Arnold Shultz Fund)
• Bluegrass for the Next Generation (Katy Daley Broadcast Media/Sound Engineering Scholarship)
• Sam Blumenthal (Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Richard Bowden (J. D. Crowe Banjo Scholarship)
• Bill Foster (Arnold Shultz Fund)
• Charles Gerhman (in honor of Peter Salovey)
• Lucy B. Griffin (Fletcher Bright grants)
• Milton Harkey/ First Class Bluegrass, ATS Records (Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Sierra Hull
• Bob Jeanin
• Otto Lipfert
• Ruth McLain
• Jana Mougin (Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Neil Rosenberg (Arnold Shultz Fund)
• Matt Royles
• Ramona Sayler (Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Maureen & Dave Staples (Katy Daley Broadcast Media & Sound Engineering Scholarship)
• Wendy Tyner (Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Janelle Whitefield
• Dwight Worden (Arnold Shultz Fund)

Patron

($100-$499)

• Jean Barnes
• Jerry Barush
• Anni Beach (Arnold Shultz Fund)
• Robert Beggs
• Melissa Bettigole (Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Lee Bidgood
• Dan Boner
• James Brittain
• Tom Brown (Terry Baucom Bluegrass Education Grant)
• Elaine Claiborne (Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Dudley Connell
• Darwin Davidson (Includes photography)
• Lee Michael Demsey (in memory of Laurie Demsey)
• Bill Foster
• Charmaine Gudgeon (Biscuits for Bluegrass 2025)
• Kimberly Handley
• Sandy Hatley, in memory of Joy Bartenstein
• James Hurster
• Lorraine Jordan
• Bill Knowlton 
• Marianne Kovatch (in honor of Fred Bartenstein, Biscuits for Bluegrass)