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IBMA Foundation 2024-2025 Year End Report
They say, “It’s all about the numbers,” and the IBMA Foundation numbers for the past fiscal year were pretty great! But more important are the names and faces, programs, stories, and wonderful bluegrass music behind each number. We’ll share some of both with you below.
Since the beginning of the Foundation in 2007, more than $530,000 has been awarded for grants, scholarships and programs.
This past year we awarded more than $74,400 in grants, scholarships, and program support.
More than 500 supporters shared in our mission to support the future of bluegrass music, with donations totaling $198,000.
We ended the 2024-25 fiscal year with $644,326 in net assets. The Foundation’s agency endowment funds totaled $539,431
Latest Info
Blue Highway to raffle guitar to benefit IBMA Foundation
Award-winning band Blue Highway has announced a guitar raffle to benefit the IBMA Foundation. Ticket sales and the drawing will take place on-site at the Blue Highway Fest, scheduled for October 11-14, in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. “I know first-hand what great work...
Arnold Shultz Fund grant report from Kenya
Elephant Grass Musical Chairs band leader and banjo player Tom Wolf shared the following correspondence with the school official where his band made a Shultz grant-funded bluegrass music presentation in Nairobi, Kenya on June 12,...
Arnold Shultz Fund grant report from Arizona
By Anni Beach, President of Jam Pak Band Jam Pak is so grateful for the grant from the Arnold Shultz Fund to help with the expenses of the three-day Bluegrass Summer Camp with Jam Pak. This is the first time we have done this, and we consider this a prototype for the...
A new policy for restricted donations
Maybe you have noticed the increasing number of scholarship funds and other specific activities donors have asked the IBMA Foundation to manage. Because there are costs involved in administering these valuable programs, the IBMA Foundation board of directors recently...
Upcoming Bluegrass College Band Showcase
Make plans now to attend the IBMA Foundation’s Bluegrass College Band Showcase, which will take place on the Youth Stage during IBMA’s Bluegrass LIVE Festival Sept. 29-30 in downtown Raleigh, 6-11 p.m. In the next issue of The Cornerstone we will have set times...
Bright grant report from Montana
by Alice Gould Thank you for choosing me to be one of the 2023 recipients of the Fletcher Bright Memorial Grant for Young Musicians. I used the grant for tuition at Montana Fiddle Camp, and boy oh boy, it was an excellent year! I met some of my musical heroes...
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