Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC
GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,776 to it, the largest being RIVERVIEW FOUNDATION INC ($35,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $144k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Georgia Music Foundation Inc does
Mission
Fostering an awareness of the state's rich music heritage by supporting programs of preservation, education and outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, the georgia music foundation celebrated the 10th anniversary of its georgia music grant program. The foundation also reached a milestone of nearly 1 million in music education grants having been distributed to k-12 schools and non-profits across the state over the past decade. Grants have funded the purchase and repair of instruments, as well as costs associated with music instruction, technology, programming and teacher training. The macon music revue preservation program has continued in partnership with visit macon to foster an awareness of the city's heritage and increase music tourism through a residency program, touring performances and an album documenting ten songs from the city's influential songbook. The georgia music foundation also partnered with blues singer/songwriter jontavious willis as fiscal agent for a taproot artists grant to engage in the preservation and teaching of georgia music, with a focus on the vibrant traditions of georgia blues.
$193,567 spentof which $66,677 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $193,567.
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 2020 to 2021, from $100k to $74k (−26%).
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: 2020 70% · 2021 47% · 2022 10% · 2023 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC’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. 6 of the last 9 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
Russell Bennett
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $35k → $49k.
3 of 11 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 MUSIC FOUNDATION INC’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 MUSIC FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
40% 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 MUSIC FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 68% · 2022 72% · 2023 57% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% 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
53% of GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MUSIC FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: 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 GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC?
- GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,776 to it, the largest being RIVERVIEW FOUNDATION INC ($35,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $143,776 in grants to GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC?
- RIVERVIEW FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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