California · Nonprofit
Big Sur Fiddle Camp
Big Sur Fiddle Camp (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,982 to it, the largest being BIG SUR FOOD & WINE FOUNDATION INC ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Big Sur Fiddle Camp does
Mission
The Big Sur Fiddle Camp is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization and has been in operation for twelve years. Annually, we have run a specialized music program for about 40 youth, 15 music-loving volunteers, and 15 instructors during each spring for one week. What makes us special is that BSFC is a music immersion program for serious stringed instrument musicians of wide-ranging ages and abilities, taught family style in Big Sur.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Big Sur Fiddle Camp provided a week-long immersive music education program featuring world-class instructors and intensive instruction in traditional folk music. Through small-group classes, private mentorship, jam sessions, community meals, and performances, musicians of all ages strengthened their musical skills while building confidence, creativity, and lasting community. Scholarships helped ensure participation regardless of financial circumstances. The program served approximately 70 participants, including students, instructors, and volunteers, and concluded with a public community concert in Big Sur.
$60,349 spent100% of program spendingBig Sur Fiddle Camp presented three public concerts throughout Monterey County, providing accessible live performances that celebrate traditional folk music while connecting local audiences with professional musicians and emerging student artists. These performances strengthen community engagement, preserve cultural traditions, and expand access to high-quality arts experiences for hundreds of residents and visitors.
Big Sur Fiddle Camp expanded access to music education by providing scholarships and conducting outreach to local youth orchestra and symphony programs throughout Monterey County. These efforts helped identify talented young musicians with financial need and ensured that cost was not a barrier to participating in immersive music education and mentorship opportunities.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,349.
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. 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 $25k to $57k (+124%).
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 Big Sur Fiddle Camp’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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lygia Chappellet
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $9k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Big Sur Fiddle Camp’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
Big Sur Fiddle Camp leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
97% 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 Big Sur Fiddle Camp.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Big Sur Fiddle Camp's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32 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.
Against its field
Big Sur Fiddle Camp runs a healthier operating margin 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 Big Sur Fiddle Camp
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Big Sur Fiddle Camp: 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 Big Sur Fiddle Camp?
- Big Sur Fiddle Camp (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,982 to it, the largest being BIG SUR FOOD & WINE FOUNDATION INC ($16,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Big Sur Fiddle Camp have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $31,982 in grants to Big Sur Fiddle Camp, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Sur Fiddle Camp?
- BIG SUR FOOD & WINE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Sur Fiddle Camp find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2020–2022), and the filings of 4 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