Florida · Nonprofit
KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION
KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $488,841 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($304,879). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $174k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $489k
- Net assets
- $122k
What Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation does
Mission
Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation (KTBA) is dedicated to offsetting the loss of music education programming due to budget cuts across America. We strive to pass the torch on to the next generation by empowering them to manifest their talents within the arts community and using music as an outlet to exercise creativity in the entertainment workforce. As of Dec 2022, KTBA has supported over 585 schools and reached 89,000 students by providing new instruments, sheet music, supplies, and professional development tools for music teachers. KTBA supports music educators who give their students a positive and rewarding experience in the arts. As KTBA promotes the advancement of STEM to STEAM curricula in schools, KTBA acknowledges the inherent resistance from dated education administrations and diminishing arts and music programming budgets. Each quarter, KTBA assess its goals and measures allowing the staging the opportunity to improve and adjust its procedures accordingly. KTBA makes a week
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Joe bonamassas fueling musicians program (fmp) is an emergency relief program for musicians facing hardship. This initiative is designed to support musicians by providing immediate financial assistance for essential living expenses such as food, shelter, and more. Fmp provides cash payments of $1,500.00. In 2022, 36 award packages were distributed to musicians facing hardship. Recipients are required to submit gratitude content to be eligible for future funding. Recipients may re-apply for funding in the next calendar year.
$57,000 spent$3,365 earned by the program56% of program spendingEvery week, keeping the blues alive chooses a different school to donate resources, including instruments, sheet music, and recording equipment that accelerates the growth and impact of music education in schools. In 2022, ktba funed 57 projects, supporting an estimated 11,275 students. Projects reached the following states: al, az, ca, co, fl, ga, il, in, la, ma, md, mi, mo, ms, nc, nj, nm, nv, ny, ok, pa, ri, sc, tn, tx, va, and wi.
$26,965 spent27% of program spendingKeeping the Blues Alive Foundation has partnered with global lighthouse studios (formerly, inspire citizens) in order to highlight the rich culture of blues history in schools by connecting qualified teachers and students with fun, student-led activities through a virtual learning setting. These activities will include podcasts, song recordings, lyric writing, tiny desk/classroom concerts, and a customized curriculum for each cohort. The program consists of a minimum of four (4) classroom sessions per partner school per semester. Sessions include a $1,000 stipend to be used to purchase instruments required for the program. The programs mission is to inspire & empower students to capture the diverse sounds, stories, histories & performances highlighting the powerful influence of the blues on communities around the world.
$17,371 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $101,336.
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 2022 to 2023, from $114k to $192k (+69%).
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.
23% of KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 3 of the last 8 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $19k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION’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
KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 51% · 2022 94% · 2023 96% — 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
40% of KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
82% of KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $90k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $399k 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
KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION?
- KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $488,841 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($304,879). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $488,841 in grants to KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $304,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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