Virginia · Nonprofit
Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts
Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,985 to it, the largest being GOLDEN PAWS FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts does
Mission
The Centers mission is to provide facilities and supporting services that attract professional musicians and recording artists and other practitioners of the creative arts in conjunction with educational and developmental programs for high school age students with identified talent in a manner that promotes meaningful interactions learning opportunities creative expression mentoring relationships and ongoing development of careers in music and the creative arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Bluegrass Master Classes in Excellence - the two-day program is designed to facilitate the development of local bluegrass musical talent and establish mentoring and support relationships between students and faculty which consists of nationally recognized bluegrass artists.
$30,700 spentof which $30,700 as grants100% of program spendingMusic and Mindfulness Camp - for 38 high school students focused on building musicianship and learning life skills necessary to successfully confront lifes challenges on the path to college. Sponsorship for 5 students.
$0 spentof which $15,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,700.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $47k to $22k (−54%).
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 Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts’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
Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
37% 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 Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts.
“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
Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
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
Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts's revenue fell 63% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
45%
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 Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts: 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 Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts?
- Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,985 to it, the largest being GOLDEN PAWS FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $39,985 in grants to Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts.
- Who is the largest funder of Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts?
- GOLDEN PAWS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Blue Ridge Center for Music & Creative Arts find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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