Tennessee · Nonprofit
COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC
COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,205 to it, the largest being PROMETHEUS CHARITABLE TRUST ($64,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $239k
What Council of Americana Roots Music does
Mission
Our mission is to promote, present, and preserve americana roots music, while serving the under-served people of appalachia with fairness, dignity, and compassion.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Offering to the public numerous music festivals and concerts. Education of Americana roots music and crafts.
$44,764 spentof which $11,500 as grants76% of program spendingAssistance to under-served people of Appalachiafrom funds raised and donated from music eventsand through digital media awareness. 1680 PEOPLE SERVED ANNUALLY
$13,981 spent24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,745.
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 2022 to 2023, from $208k to $340k (+64%).
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: 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC’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. 5 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Jay Clark
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $23k → $5k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC’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
COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 44% · 2019 43% · 2020 87% · 2021 97% · 2022 99% · 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
COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC
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 Tennessee
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC: 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 COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC?
- COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,205 to it, the largest being PROMETHEUS CHARITABLE TRUST ($64,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $104,205 in grants to COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC?
- PROMETHEUS CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $64,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL OF AMERICANA ROOTS MUSIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 6 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