Georgia · Nonprofit
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,185 to it, the largest being NORA ROBERTS FOUNDATION ($13,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $166k
What Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival does
Mission
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival Inc. provides meaningful opportunities for an underserved audience to engage with storytelling through hearing stories and attending workshops that will enable them to develop a cultural intelligence through the arts of listening and speaking. The GMSF celebrates diverse traditions of storytelling including those of Appalachia.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Held annually in the spring the two-day Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival shares the art of storytelling with culturally and economically diverse audiences by offering storytelling and musical performances events for children and students an open mic an exhibit on traditional quilting and workshops for visitors to learn about the tradition of oral storytelling and become part of its preservation. The festival also includes an annual workshop on storytelling as a form of healing from trauma. The event brings verbal arts to an area with low literacy rates; offers free for students low-income individuals and individuals with disabilities and low-cost for all others educational arts programming in an economically depressed area to people who would have no way to see artists of this caliber otherwise; addresses the growing problem of excessive screen time by providing activities that demonstrate the value of face-to-face rather than digital interaction; shares the traditional arts of storytelling and quilting with younger generations who may be unaware of or detached from these expressions of culture; and brings together different segments of our community and helps them learn…
$45,701 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,701.
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) — 26% 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. 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
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
26% 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 Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival.
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. 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
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 335 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
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
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 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. Screen this nonprofit · 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 $20,185 to it, the largest being NORA ROBERTS FOUNDATION ($13,500). 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 $20,185 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 $13,500 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.
Play a game about who funds Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival →
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 4 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