Indiana · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC
INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,859,599 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,818,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $659k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Inc does
Mission
The international violin competition of indianapolis (ivci) recognizes, rewards and promotes the world's finest young classical violinists and encourages understanding, appreciation and support of the violin repertoire by a large and diverse audience. The ivci utilizes its world prominence to bring international attention to indianapolis, and maintains its efforts to be a visible and collaborative member of the arts communities in indianapolis and indiana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The international violin competition of indianapolis fulfills its mission by sponsoring and producing one of the world's leading violin competitions on a quadrennial basis, and education and public outreach programs.
$270,794 spent82% of program spendingThe ivci laureate series features past prize winners and guests in recital and in concert with area ensembles bringing the excitement of the competition back to indiana annually (serving approx. 2000 people).
$59,833 spent$28,027 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $330,627.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $1.4M (−22%).
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: 2017 14% · 2018 14% · 2019 4% · 2020 11% · 2021 14% · 2022 22% · 2023 3% · 2024 7% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS 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. 4 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.
Chief executive
Glen Kwok
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $127k → $1.9M.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $375k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Josef Gingold Fund for the Intl Violin Competition of Indianapolis). These are real filings, and they are not money INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS 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
INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 63% · 2019 76% · 2020 37% · 2021 37% · 2022 34% · 2023 47% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
83% of INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $837k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 9 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Josef Gingold Fund for the International Violin Comp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS 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 INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC?
- INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,859,599 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,818,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $4,859,599 in grants to INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,818,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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