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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
A message from Nancy Cardwell – March 2023
Spring is just around the corner, and it’s the time of year for those who plant gardens to start leafing through seed catalogs. For those who play bluegrass instruments (or would like to), it’s time to check out the list of bluegrass camps and workshops available this...
Message from Nancy Cardwell
February Message from Nancy Cardwell Here’s a February Valentine for you! Thanks so much for everything you do to create, support, and share bluegrass music with the world. A special thanks to those who have made donations to one of the many IBMA Foundation grant...
Project grant recipients announced
The IBMA Foundation recently awarded $24,200 in project grants to 13 bluegrass programs in 10 states. This year’s total for the long-running, flagship program of the IBMA Foundation is up from $14,000 awarded in 2021 and $21,334 in 2022. “A diverse list of...
Pisgah banjo raffle to benefit Shultz Fund
Pisgah Banjos is excited to announce another chance to win a very unique custom banjo! Raffle tickets are $20 each and all proceeds will benefit the Arnold Shultz Fund, a grant program dedicated to people of color pursuing traditional old-time and bluegrass music....
String Band Summit February 9-12 at ETSU
For those interested in academic research, conversations, and workshops on the topic of bluegrass and related string band music, the place to be is the second annual String Band Summit February 9-12, hosted on the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson...
Grant Recipient Report from Arizona
By Anni Beach With deepest gratitude, I am submitting the report for our five recipients of the Fletcher Bright Memorial Grant for Young Musicians. Fair Black Rose of Jam Pak was an invited band to participate in the World of Bluegrass 2022 in Raleigh, North Carolina,...
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