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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
Arnold Shultz Fund and project grant reports from AZ, NC, TN and OR
Arizona Shultz grant: The production of a CD of live music performed at World of Bluegrass 2021 by the Fair Black Rose Band from the Jam Pak Band program in Chandler, Arizona was funded by a 2022 Arnold Shultz Grant. Anni Beach, founder and band leader of Jam...
Fourteen bands to perform at Bluegrass College Band Showcase
Be sure to join us Friday and Saturday, September 30 – October 1, at the Youth Stage in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, for the IBMA Foundation’s annual Bluegrass College Band Showcase. We are honored to spotlight emerging bluegrass talent from a diverse group of...
Gabby Cameron wins Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award
Congratulations to Gabby Cameron, a MA Ethnomusicology student at the University of Maryland, who is the 2022 recipient of the IBMA Foundation’s Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award. Cameron’s presentation, titled “The Jewgrass Situation: An Examination of Nefesh...
IBMA Foundation awards eight college scholarships
Foundation awards eight college scholarships The IBMA Foundation is proud to announce the following recipients of college scholarships for the fall 2022 semester. Shane Austin from Fall Branch, Tennessee is the 2022 recipient of the Crandall Creek Scholarship for...
New policy for designated donations
We are delighted that people are finding so many creative ways to use the IBMA Foundation! In the last two years, the number of grant programs, scholarships, awards and instrument donations has mushroomed. We operate with a lean and efficient part-time staff—Nancy...
First recipients of Fletcher Bright Memorial grants for young musicians announced
Congratulations to siblings Bayla and Judah Davis of Leicester, NC, the first two recipients of the Fletcher Bright Memorial Grant, a year-round opportunity to help fund bluegrass music camp scholarships, lessons, instruments and repair, and educational materials...
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