South Carolina · Nonprofit
AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL
AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,234 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($54,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $460k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $99k
- Net assets
- $170k
What Aiken Music Festival does
Mission
Our mission is to enhance the quality and enrich the cultural life of our city through various music ensembles and concerts. The mission is to support the advancement of the musical arts and serve the community by educating the public, inspiring new generations of both audiences an musicians, giving young musicians and opportunity to serve society, and providing established professional musicians opportunity to recommit themselves to music education and to pursue new directions in their own art.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Music festivals featuring joye in aiken's most talented students, faculty and alumni designed to attract a large cross-section of residents by offering discounted ticket prices and offering a benefit concert for donors.
$263,960 spent$87,239 earned by the program97% of program spendingOutreach activities by the joye in aiken students in the local area to include artist residencies, in-school interactive performances, master classes, clinics, preconcert events,a young people's concert, and jazz camp.
$9,501 spent$2,775 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $273,461.
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 2021 to 2022, from $290k to $157k (−46%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 15% · 2023 21% · 2024 22% · 2025 29% · 2026 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Steve Naifeh
Chairman eme
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $29k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL’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
AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 48% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
20% of AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 630 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL: 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 AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL?
- AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,234 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($54,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $99,234 in grants to AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $54,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AIKEN MUSIC FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing