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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
Scholarships to be announced August 1
Stay tuned! IBMA Foundation-hosted college scholarship and Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award recipients will be announced in the August 1 issue of this publication, as well as on our website at bluegrassfoundation.org. RETURN to the July 2023 issue of The...
Recent board and officer election
The IBMA Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce the addition of one new and four returning members for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2023: Laurie Greenberg, Michael Hall, Arthur Hancock IV, Peter Salovey, and Wendy Tyner. Our slate of officers will...
A message from Nancy Cardwell – July 2023
It’s time for Independence Day, the Ferris wheel top of summer heat, and the height of the bluegrass festival season. July 1 is the beginning of a new fiscal year for the IBMA Foundation, and this issue will introduce a new board member, look forward to World of...
Winners of the Strings for Dreams Bluegrass Raffle announced
The IBMA Foundation is pleased to announce that Jayson Clark from New York state has won the prize 1967 D-35 Martin guitar. Jayson wrote, “I am honored to have won this wonderful guitar from the 2023 Strings for Dreams raffle, but even more honored to support the IBMA...
June 30 deadline for Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award submissions
The Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award, sponsored in 2023 by Trisha & John Tubbs and Jon Weisberger, annually recognizes the best bluegrass-related paper accepted by a juried academic conference during the previous year. Developing academic scholars eligible...
Congratulations to mini-grant and Bright grant recipients!
Congratulations to the following recipients of Bluegrass in the Schools mini-grants and Fletcher Bright Memorial Grants for Young Musicians in April and May of 2023. BGIS mini-grants were made to Bel Canto Cedar Valley, for a presentation by Monroe Crossing in Cedar...
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