Michigan · Nonprofit
JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC
JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,930 to it, the largest being IRVING S GILMORE FOUNDATION ($115,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $388k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $273k
- Net assets
- $829k
What Julius & Esther Stulberg Competition Inc does
Mission
The mission of the stulberg international string competition is to promote excellence in string instrument performance by gifted artists under the age of twenty. Our vision is to deepen community engagement while offering a premier string competition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The stulberg is an internationally recognized string competition and is one of the longest running competitions in the united states for youth under twenty years old. Since 1975, the stulberg has awarded over 140 medals to promising young musicians from around the world. Many have gone on to illustrious careers and can be found as soloists or holding seats in major orchestras. The stulberg international string competition takes place annually in may. Along with the competition, the stulberg holds master classes for string students, performs outreach events, and collaborates with other prestigious organizations throughout the year. Some of the stulberg international string competitions most famous alumni include joshua bell, jennifer koh, rachel barton pine, benjamin beilman, and soovin kim to name a few.
$311,418 spent$64,141 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $311,418.
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.
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 $590k to $711k (+21%).
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 10% · 2018 12% · 2019 11% · 2020 12% · 2021 7% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $31k → $66k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION 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
JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% 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
25% 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 JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 50% · 2019 68% · 2020 45% · 2021 95% · 2022 59% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
100% of JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k 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.
Organizations like JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION 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 JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC?
- JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $272,930 to it, the largest being IRVING S GILMORE FOUNDATION ($115,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $272,930 in grants to JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC?
- IRVING S GILMORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JULIUS & ESTHER STULBERG COMPETITION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 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