Minnesota · Nonprofit
BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL
BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,919 to it, the largest being VERNA O CANOVA FOUNDATION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $560
What Bach Roots Festival does
Mission
Charitable
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
61,804:Contracted a total of 60 professional musicians to rehearse and perform six concerts across the Twin Cities, MN enjoyed by 1,100 people. 6,405 Founded an Emerging Artist program for classical singers from historically excluded backgrounds. Selected applicants and teaching artists received transportation, .lodging, professional wages, performance experience, and mentorship.
$78,587 spentof which $32,089 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,587.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $40k to $560 (−99%).
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.
83% of BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jonathan Wiese
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $26k → $12k.
From the IRS filings of BACH ROOTS 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
BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 77% · 2022 83% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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
88% of BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like BACH ROOTS 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
70%
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 BACH ROOTS 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 BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL?
- BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,919 to it, the largest being VERNA O CANOVA FOUNDATION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $49,919 in grants to BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL?
- VERNA O CANOVA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACH ROOTS FESTIVAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 3 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