Georgia · Nonprofit
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,185 to it, the largest being NORA ROBERTS FOUNDATION ($10,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 171 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 171 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Drei Schwestern Foundation Inclocal
- Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Incportfolio match
- Asheville Area Arts Councilportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $3k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 83% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Drei Schwestern Foundation InclocalGA · funds 2 organizations near you
- Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asheville Area Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tw Percy B Ferebee Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Durham Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxvilleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Slemp Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Sciences & Cultural Council of Charlotte Mecklenburg Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
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 Georgia Mountain Storytelling 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival?
- Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,185 to it, the largest being NORA ROBERTS FOUNDATION ($10,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $17,185 in grants to Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival?
- NORA ROBERTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2026–2026), and the filings of 4funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing