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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
Call for bluegrass college band showcase
The IBMA Foundation is pleased to announce the return of the live Bluegrass College Band Showcase on Friday and Saturday evenings, September 30 and October 1. The showcases will be presented at the Youth Stage located at 420 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, North...
June 30 deadline for Rosenberg Scholar Award
The deadline to be considered for the 2022 Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholarship Award from the IBMA Foundation is June 30. The award annually recognizes the best bluegrass-related paper accepted by a juried academic conference during the previous year. Developing...
Scholarship Report from Jessie Lang
We recently received the following report from guitarist/songwriter Jessie Lang, a student at Belmont University who was awarded the Rick Lang Music Songwriter Scholarship in 2021. (Jessie is not related to the scholarship donors.) “I am so grateful to the IBMA...
Mini-grant recipient report from Connecticut
Check out the video above for a message from Danbury, CT-based bluegrass educator and musician Austin Scelzo. The video visits the series of Bluegrass in the Schools programs his band is implementing in Connecticut high schools (Austin is the mandolin player/fiddler...
Bluegrass at California’s Avenal State Prison
An IBMA Foundation project grant to the California Bluegrass Association (CBA) in April is helping to fund an educational bluegrass program for inmates at Avenal (CA) State Prison, in the San Francisco Bay area. The CBA is currently outlining how they will proceed...
Plan to support the future of bluegrass music
Are you looking to save money this year? Are you planning for your future? If you have a passion for sharing bluegrass music with future generations, the IBMA Foundation can partner with you. There are a number of charitable plans that can help you save on taxes this...
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