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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
Attention, Artists: March 14 deadline to submit designs for six-panel mural depicting history of bluegrass music
A new downtown public art exhibit in Owensboro, Kentucky is planned to celebrate the city’s initiative to be recognized as the bluegrass capital of the world. Local artists, along with artists from around the world, are invited to submit original designs to be...
A message from Nancy Cardwell
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...
Fletcher Bright grant report from Josh Wills
Fletcher Bright grant recipient Josh Wills is a quadruple-threat musician with impressive chops on guitar, mandolin, banjo, and fiddle. He is pictured above on fiddle with his instructor, Bruce Molsky. Josh said, “This camp is the only one that I know of that aims to...
Fletcher Bright grant report from Sophia DiChiara
We just wanted to send a video saying THANK YOU for the grant allowing Sophia to attend Monroe Mandolin Camp! Sophia learns so much at camp, and it's been such a blessing to her. She has grown so much as a musician, and her love for bluegrass and passion for playing...
Shultz Fund grant report from Louisville School of Folk Music
We’re thrilled to be part of the Arnold Shultz Fund series and to share our experience. Our 2024 grant allowed us to offer a free, eight-week guitar class to middle school students at the Americana World Community Center, many of whom are recent arrivals from around...
Bluegrass in the Blue Ridge to benefit IBMA Foundation
Plan to join us at Lorraine Jordan’s Bluegrass in the Blue Ridge festival April 10-12, 2025, at the Meadowview Conference Resort and Hotel in Kingsport, Tennessee! Attendees will be invited to donate an extra dollar (or two) at the gate for the IBMA Foundation, and...
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