Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC
BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,062 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($115,706). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $-15074
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $149k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Billtown Blues Association Inc does
Mission
Educate and expose area to Roots and Blues Music
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The 33rd Annual Billtown Blues Festival and related events were held toallow in excess of 2,000 area residents to experience music that would otherwise not be available also to offer area musicians opportunities to perform.
$116,807 spentof which $10,971 as grants97% of program spendingA website, Facebook page and newsletter is maintained to educate members and the general public of music events and arts of interest. This benefitsover 200 members plus a large number of the general public interested in music and arts.
$1,600 spent1% of program spendingAn Annual audition concert is held to give local musicians an opportunity tocompete in the International Blues Challengein Memphis TN. Winners also receivefinancial support for the trip. In addition, the winners perform for over 2000 music fans at our festival.
$2,500 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,907.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $45k to $23k (−50%).
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.
100% of BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $29k → $14k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC’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
BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 78% · 2019 58% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% — 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
83% of BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC'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 $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC's revenue fell 326% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,282 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC
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 Pennsylvania
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC?
- BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,062 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($115,706). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $149,062 in grants to BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC?
- FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $115,706 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BILLTOWN BLUES ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2024), 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