New York · Nonprofit
ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD
ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,250 to it, the largest being THE RED ELM TREE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Acoustic Traditions Ltd does
Mission
Fund projects to raise the public's awareness of american acoustic music, the musicians who developed the form, and their influence on modern music.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide funding/services for production of a documentary on john monteleone, world's greatest guitar and mandolin builder.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $197 to $77k (+39094%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $35k → $40k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 71% · 2019 99% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD?
- ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,250 to it, the largest being THE RED ELM TREE FOUNDATION ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $75,250 in grants to ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD.
- Who is the largest funder of ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD?
- THE RED ELM TREE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing