Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY
AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY (Texas) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,889,684 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($1,310,641). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Andrew S Roddick Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Donald D Hammill Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Mockingbird Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
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) — 56% 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 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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
56% 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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 67% 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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 49 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Andrew S Roddick Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchTX · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Donald D Hammill Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 58 organizations near you
- The Mockingbird Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Austin Parks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roger and Cynthia Borgelt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Junior League of Austin Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 32 organizations near you
- Harry E and Eda L Montandon Charitable Trshared funderslocalTX · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you
- The Bill M and Cecile Autrey Ham Charitable Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- St David's Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 146 organizations that share your funders · funds 233 organizations near you
- Ascension Setonshared funderslocalMO · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 84 organizations near you
- Georgetown Healthcare System Incshared fundersTX · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
- The Webber Family Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY?
- AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY (Texas) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,889,684 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($1,310,641). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% 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 $3,889,684 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.
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 49funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing