Virginia · Nonprofit
APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION
APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Smyth County Community Hospital ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $372k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Appalachian Music Heritage Foundation does
Mission
The corporation's mission is to promote the music and culture of the appalachian region by showcasing region's musicians. The major focus of the corporation is the production of the program "song of the mountains" which is aired on public tv.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During 2025, the corporation produced approximately 11 monthly "song of the mountains" productions and distributed them to the national educational foundation assoc (neta,) who in turn distributes these productions to approx. 97 pbs stations. The overall result was approx. 2039 telecasts in 35 states in 2025. The productions consist of musical performances.
$360,387 spent$154,206 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $360,387.
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 2020 to 2021, from $64k to $103k (+60%).
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: 2017 26% · 2018 28% · 2019 56% · 2020 85% · 2021 78% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% · 2024 31% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION’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
APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
100% 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 APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION.
“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
APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION's revenue grew 74% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION: 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 APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being Smyth County Community Hospital ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- Smyth County Community Hospital is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPALACHIAN MUSIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2 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