Louisiana · Nonprofit
Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival
Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,487 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($168,471). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $33k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $94k
What Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival does
Mission
Chamber music education and performance
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Birdfoot is a 10-day international chamber music festival inspired by new orleans' music traditions. Due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic restrictions, birdfoot festival pivoted on short notice to produce and present an online festival of 6 virtual segments of its signature birdfoot backstage program, reaching a national and international audience in the process. These programs continue to be posted for viewing on birdfoot's website, www.birdfootfestival.org. During this period, birdfoot additionally continued to host andmaintain the hearhearnola.org music calendar as a resource for the local community, musicians, and musical organizations, pivoting at the onset of the pandemic to listing online events.
$0 spentThe festival would have contributed to economic development within the city by contributingto new orleans' cultural landscape, presenting nationally and internationally aclaimedartists, and attracting out-of-town visitors to its annual festival.
$0 spentIn support of its vision of invigorating the city's classical music scene and transforming the way chamber music is experienced, birdfoot addresses the needs of three groups: the artists - birdfoot is an incubator for musical creativity and innovation. The festival believes that when musicians have time and space to collaborate and work in depth, audiences experience the exhilarating results. The community - birdfoot works to reach community members who are hungry for art that both nourishes and challenges. The festival additionally hosts an online calendar of local live musical performances (in collaboration with new orleans public radio) that is free for both presenters to post on and for the community to view. Youth education - birdfoot's annual 5-month intensive young artist program challenges local music students (ages 12-18) to expand their musical abilities, imagination, and leadership skills throughchamber music coachings, workshops, and masterclasses. By hiring local music teachers, birdfoot works to build a network of support for chamber music education. The organization did not, during the year, receive any funds, directly, or indirectly, to pay premiums on a personal…
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $25k to $66k (+168%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $5k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Birdfoot Chamber Music 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
Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
99% 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 Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
99% of Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Louisiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k 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.
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In Louisiana
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 Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival?
- Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,487 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($168,471). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $170,487 in grants to Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival?
- THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $168,471 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2017–2022), 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