Tennessee · Nonprofit
GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES
GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,500 to it, the largest being Guitars For Vets Inc ($202,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $214k
- Net assets
- $626k
What Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives does
Mission
The gibson gives | gibson foundation is a 501(c)(3) committed to introduce, inspire, and amplify the power of music through guitars across all generations, genres, and genders.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Play it forward program - our primary objective is to provide the necessary instruments and inspiration to fuel the next generation with the gift of music.
$611,013 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 $278k to $1.1M (+292%).
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.
100% of GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Cesar Gueikian
Pres./chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $121k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES’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
GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
100% 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 GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES has grown faster than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES?
- GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,500 to it, the largest being Guitars For Vets Inc ($202,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $213,500 in grants to GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES?
- Guitars For Vets Inc is the largest funder on record, with $202,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIBSON GIVES FOUNDATION DBA GIBSON GIVES 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.
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 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