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Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival

Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,378 to it, the largest being THE PEYTON ANDERSON FOUNDATION ($229,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$365k
Net assets
$1.5M
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival does

Mission

Macon, Georgia's International Cherry Blossom Festival works to enhance the quality of life, community fellowship, and civic pride of all Macon and Middle Georgia residents through the encouragement, development, and coordination of selected recreational, cultural, educational and social activities. Through each activity the Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the Macon and Middle Georgia Community by honoring "love, beauty, and international friendship".

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Macon, Georgia's International Cherry Blossom Festival celebrated its 42nd festival as it showcased the best of Macon and Middle Georgia for 10 days, guests from all around Georgia, the country and the world celebrated the beauty of the Yoshino Cherry trees in Macon, Georgia, a town referred to by congressional records as the Cherry Blossom Capital of the World. The community and visitors celebrated the 41st festival by walking and driving the cherry blossom trail, participating in cornerstone and community favorite events, and joining in the fun of new programming put on by Macon, Georgia's International Cherry Blossom Festival and its umbrella, sanctioned events. With 80 percent of International Cherry Blossom Festival's in-house produced events free or at a nominal admission fee, all residents and visitors were able to put on their pink, join in the festivities, and celebrate "love, beauty, and international friendship", the Festival's founding principles.

    $1,213,269 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,213,269.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($625k)2018 Revenue 109 ($1.1M) Expenses 124 ($1.4M) Net assets 56 ($348k)2019 Revenue 124 ($1.2M) Expenses 92 ($1.0M) Net assets 91 ($567k)2020 Revenue 80 ($800k) Expenses 57 ($632k) Net assets 117 ($729k)2021 Revenue 103 ($1.0M) Expenses 79 ($867k) Net assets 144 ($900k)2022 Revenue 196 ($2.0M) Expenses 123 ($1.4M) Net assets 239 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 148 ($1.5M) Expenses 150 ($1.6M) Net assets 212 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 146 ($1.5M) Expenses 149 ($1.6M) Net assets 182 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 147 ($1.5M) Expenses 128 ($1.4M) Net assets 244 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (147)Expenses (128)Net assets (244)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+55%).

$671k
$517k
$612k
$905k
$1.1M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.3M
$1.7M
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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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

23% of Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,898 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$102k
’17
−$278k
’18
$224k
’19
$168k
’20
$159k
’21
$607k
’22
−$172k
’23
−$182k
’24
$59k
’25
9.9
months of
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

Stacy Laine Moore

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed392727262725252322
Joined·+5+6+3+1+4+4+6+2
No longer listed·176406483
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $13k → $30k.

1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $32k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Navicent Health Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival raised.

From the IRS filings of Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom 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

Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 75% · 2019 63% · 2020 83% · 2021 52% · 2022 84% · 2023 30% — 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

71% of Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

89% of Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

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

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve9.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 17%Fundraising 16%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival?
Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival (Georgia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,378 to it, the largest being THE PEYTON ANDERSON FOUNDATION ($229,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $365,378 in grants to Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival?
THE PEYTON ANDERSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $229,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 8 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing