Texas · Nonprofit
AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC
AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $386 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($386). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $386
- Net assets
- $529k
What American Viola Society Inc does
Mission
The American Viola Society inspires excellence and builds community through viola study, performance, research, composition, and lutherie.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The journal of the american viola society, a peer-reviewed publication, is addressed primarily to violists for the promotion of viola performance and research. Articles are written by performers, teachers, and historians for the interest of the wider community of professional and amateur violists, students, makers, publishers, and string enthusiasts. The journal is published twice per year in print format and once per year as an online journal.
$27,048 spent65% of program spendingAvs festival: the avs festival is a bi-annual four-day signature event core to the mission of the american viola society. The avs festival gathers violists and violaenthusiasts from all around the world with the goal to foster bonds among violists, provide opportunities for individual growth and recognition and support professionaldevelopment and artistic performance by providing performance, teaching, and presentation opportunities.
$12,358 spentof which $2,500 as grants$625 earned by the program30% of program spendingAvs viola bank: the avs viola bank is a program inspired by longtime avs member sandy robbins to provide instruments to students in most need.
$2,070 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,476.
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.
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 $221k to $340k (+54%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $77 → $85.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $386 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.
Organizations like AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC: 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 AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC?
- AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $386 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($386). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $386 in grants to AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $386 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN VIOLA SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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