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FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST

FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being R & R Geller Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$54k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$131k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Folk Alliance Region - West Farwest does

Mission

Organize conference for folk musicians

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. A year round organization providing advocacy and education for our membership. Hosted a conference including workshops and performances with approximately 190 attendees.

    $40,922 spent$38,150 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $40,922.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($74k) Net assets 100 ($124k)2018 Revenue 134 ($95k) Expenses 90 ($67k) Net assets 123 ($152k)2019 Revenue 109 ($77k) Expenses 93 ($69k) Net assets 129 ($160k)2020 Revenue 10 ($7k) Expenses 22 ($16k) Net assets 122 ($152k)2021 Revenue 28 ($20k) Expenses 39 ($29k) Net assets 115 ($143k)2022 Revenue 5 ($3k) Expenses 20 ($15k) Net assets 106 ($131k)2023 Revenue 78 ($56k) Expenses 91 ($68k) Net assets 96 ($119k)2024 Revenue 76 ($54k) Expenses 56 ($42k) Net assets 106 ($131k)
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Revenue (76)Expenses (56)Net assets (106)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $124k to $152k (+23%).

$124k
$152k
$160k
$152k
$143k
$131k
$119k
$133k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
$28k
’18
$8k
’19
−$9k
’20
−$9k
’21
−$11k
’22
−$12k
’23
$12k
’24
25
months of
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.

20232024
Listed1111
Joined·+3
No longer listed·3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST’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.

Where its funders are

FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

WA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST?
FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being R & R Geller Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST.
Who is the largest funder of FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST?
R & R Geller Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOLK ALLIANCE REGION - WEST FARWEST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 1 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