Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY
AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY (Texas) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,939,684 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,310,641). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $316k
What Austin Classical Guitar Society does
Mission
Classical guitar promotion/education
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Artistic programming artistic programming consists of concerts, original productions, commissioned works, artist residencies, and related public events featuring local, national, and international artists. These programs support acgs mission by creating meaningful artistic experiences that connect audiences, artists, and community members through music.
$490,960 spent$148,557 earned by the program30% of program spendingCommunity outreach community outreach consists of performances, workshops, and engagement activities presented in collaboration with community partners. These programs are intended to expand access to music by reducing barriers to participation and serving audiences beyond acgs regular concert settings.
$124,890 spent8% of program spendingEducational outreach educational outreach consists of classroom-based music education, curriculum development and publishing, teacher training, student performance opportunities, and related educational support. These programs serve students, educators, and partner schools in austin and beyond, juvenile justice settings and blind and visually impaired learners.
$768,752 spent$101,066 earned by the program47% of program spendingPublic service public service consists of youth and adult ensembles, summer camps, classes, workshops, and related participatory programs for amateur guitarists. These programs are designed to provide accessible music- learning and performance opportunities for individuals of varying ages and experience levels.
$267,345 spent$65,303 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,651,947.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $585k to $853k (+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: 2020 23% · 2021 36% · 2022 16% · 2023 4% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Matthew Hinsley
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $55k → $494k.
10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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
AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
60% 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 AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 16% · 2019 30% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 24% · 2023 25% — 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
45% of AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
55% of AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY'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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $448k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$448k
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 AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY?
- AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY (Texas) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,939,684 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,310,641). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,939,684 in grants to AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $1,310,641 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 49 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