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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 endowed, next grant deadline is Jan. 31, 2022
Arnold Shultz Fund endowed, next grant deadline is January 31, 2022 "The Arnold Shultz Fund is an initiative that welcomes the participation of people of color in bluegrass music, " said Dr. Richard Brown of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who co-chairs the Arnold Shultz...
Spotlight on college scholarship recipient Jessie Lang
We recently received the following email (excerpted below) from Jessie Lang, a first-year student at Belmont University. The IBMA Foundation awarded Lang a college scholarship in 2020. “The IBMA Foundation's Sally Ann Forrester scholarship helped me start college at...
Deadline for Rosenberg Scholar Award is June 30
The Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award annually recognizes the best bluegrass-related paper accepted by a juried academic conference during the year. Developing academic scholars eligible for this award are defined as graduate students in MA or PhD programs and recent...
Welcome to May issue of The Cornerstone; Strings for Dreams Bluegrass Raffle to take place May 14
The drawing for the last available carbon fiber Z Mandolin and a new Calton Case is less than two weeks away! Get your raffle tickets now and plan to join us for the live-stream drawing at noon ET on Friday, May 14, at the IBMA Foundation Facebook page. I hope you...
Crandall Creek Scholarship
The Crandall Creek Scholarship is an annual $1,000 college scholarship awarded to a person who demonstrates an interest and involvement in any aspect of bluegrass music, including but not limited to performance. Rainy Miatke from Ashland, Oregon (pictured above) is...
Are you ready for the Big PayBack May 5-6?
The IBMA Foundation will be participating in the Big PayBack, the annual giving day hosted by The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee for Middle Tennessee donors (and beyond) to give back to nonprofits. During the past seven years the Big Payback has generated...
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