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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
Fletcher Bright Memorial Grant for Young Musicians
The IBMA Foundation is proud to host the Fletcher Bright Memorial Grant for Young Musicians. The Bright family of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Thomas J. Brown of Dalton, Georgia; and Barbara Martin Stephens of Madison, Tennessee made combined gifts of $29,000 in 2020 to...
Pisgah Banjo raffle closes March 6
Time is running out to purchase a ticket for a chance to win a very unique and historically significant custom banjo from the Pisgah Banjo Company! Raffle tickets for the March 6 live-streamed drawing on the Pisgah Banjo Company Facebook page are $20 each, and all...
Call for College Scholarship applicants, deadline June 1
The IBMA Foundation now offers six different college scholarships. Students interested in applying for the fall 2022 semester are invited to fill out an application at this link and email it to info@bluegrassfoundation or mail it to 1183 University Drive #105-215,...
A message from Nancy Cardwell
The first two months of 2022 have been challenging. A third extremely contagious strain of COVID 19 wore us all out, but case numbers are finally on the decline. Cold sheets of ice and snowstorms came back to cover the frozen, white landscape, even as the first...
IBMA Foundation announces J. D. Crowe Banjo Scholarship
The IBMA Foundation is proud to announce the launch of the J. D. Crowe Banjo Scholarship. Longtime friend and fellow Kentucky bluegrass musician Arthur Hancock III has made the initial $20,000 donation to create the fund and endow the scholarship for the benefit of...
Report from Sally Ann Forrester Scholarship recipient, Emma Turoff
I was very fortunate to receive the Sally Ann Forrester scholarship from the IBMA Foundation for my first semester at Berklee College of Music this past fall. The money I received from this scholarship went towards paying part of my tuition. It was an amazing...
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