Texas · Nonprofit
KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION
KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,078 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($18,862). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Kerrville Folk Festival Foundation does
Mission
To promote public appreciation and support for songwriters, the songwriting craft, and folk music by creating a community where songcraft is supported and folk music is enjoyed by people of all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Annually, the Kerrville Folk Festival Foundation ("kff foundation- or "foundation") normally produces the 18-day kerrville folk festival (may 22 - june 8, 2025) and a 3-day event called welcome home fest (october 9-11). Because of severe flooding impacts in the region this year, we canceled welcome home fest to focus on supporting our local community. The kerrville folk festival ("kff") is the foundation's flagship event. Established in 1972, the kff is among the longest continuously running music festivals in the country and, in 2025, we celebrated our 53rd annual festival. During kff, the foundation hosts the kerrville folk festival grassy hill singer songwriter competition. The foundation received almost 1200 entries, from which 24 finalists were selected to perform at the festival. From those 24 finalists, 6 winners are selected; winners receive a cash prize and are invited to participate in a 10-day tour, performing at texas venues. During the festival, we also host a number of seminars and workshops, including instrument specific workshops (harmonica, ukulele and guitar) as well as songwriting workshops on topics such as co-writing and creative process. We also hosted a…
$972,121 spent$562,163 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $972,121.
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 $970k to $1.4M (+39%).
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: 2021 21% · 2022 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $8k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL 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
KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 82% · 2022 89% · 2023 88% — 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
98% of KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL 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 $735 that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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
KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: 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 KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION?
- KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,078 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($18,862). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $33,078 in grants to KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $18,862 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 5 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