Texas · Nonprofit
Cactus Pear Music Festival
Cactus Pear Music Festival (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $623,178 to it, the largest being RUSSELL HILL ROGERS FUND FOR THE ARTS ($290,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $285k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $623k
- Net assets
- $140k
What Cactus Pear Music Festival does
Mission
to organize, promote, and produce classical music concerts
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Cactus Pear Music Festival and Young Artist ProgramCactus Pear Music Festival: summer chamber music festival consisting ofmultiple weeks of performances by noted chamber music artists of nationaland international renown, held both in San Antonio and neighboring southTexas communities.Young Peoples Concerts: free community engagement concerts presented duringthe summer music festival for children ages 4 to 18, including children andteens in the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio program as well as childrenfrom underserved local populationsYoung Artist Program: a full-scholarship program which provides festival-long intensive training fellowships and ensemble performance opportunitiesto talented and accomplished young student musicians from the south TexasregionCPMF received $107,300 in noncash contributions for various services and useof facilities/equipment during the year which are not reported in TotalContributions, Gifts and Grants on Form 990 Part VIII Line 1. These noncashcontributions include: accounting/tax/consultation services provided byCPA; grant writing services; marketing/development services; advertising;graphic design services; transportation and housing of festival…
$102,244 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $102,244.
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. 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 2019 to 2020, from $147k to $257k (+74%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 22% · 2019 18% · 2020 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 29% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Cactus Pear Music Festival’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $84k → $84k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Cactus Pear 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
Cactus Pear Music Festival leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 Cactus Pear Music Festival.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 41% · 2019 73% · 2020 35% · 2021 69% · 2022 45% · 2023 59% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of Cactus Pear Music Festival's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of Cactus Pear Music Festival's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $296k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Cactus Pear Music Festival runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Cactus Pear Music 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cactus Pear Music 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 Cactus Pear Music Festival?
- Cactus Pear Music Festival (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $623,178 to it, the largest being RUSSELL HILL ROGERS FUND FOR THE ARTS ($290,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cactus Pear Music Festival have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $623,178 in grants to Cactus Pear Music Festival, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cactus Pear Music Festival?
- RUSSELL HILL ROGERS FUND FOR THE ARTS is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cactus Pear Music Festival find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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