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LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL

LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,040 to it, the largest being MURAR FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$199k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$152k
Net assets
$83k
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Lake George Music Festival does

Mission

Charitable

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. A classical music festival in Lake George, NY.

    $186,543 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $186,543.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($117k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($237k)2022 Revenue 108 ($126k) Expenses 149 ($141k) Net assets 94 ($221k)2023 Revenue 158 ($186k) Expenses 210 ($199k) Net assets 71 ($169k)2024 Revenue 158 ($186k) Expenses 202 ($192k) Net assets 69 ($162k)2025 Revenue 170 ($199k) Expenses 196 ($187k) Net assets 35 ($83k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (170)Expenses (196)Net assets (35)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $162k to $83k (−49%).

$237k
$221k
$169k
$162k
$83k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

62% of LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’21
−$15k
’22
−$14k
’23
−$7k
’24
$13k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Alexander Lombard

Co-Founder & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $18k → $26k.

From the IRS filings of LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL’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

LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

20%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 59% · 2019 37% · 2020 46% · 2021 24% · 2022 23% · 2023 31% — 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

50% of LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.

NY
PA
NJ
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL?
LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,040 to it, the largest being MURAR FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $152,040 in grants to LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL?
MURAR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 15 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