Kentucky · Nonprofit
NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC
NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,026 to it, the largest being OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($11,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $7k
What National Jug Band Jubilee Inc does
Mission
The National Jug Band Jubilee celebrates the history of jug band music in Louisville, KY. The Jubilee focuses on the education and historic preservation through activities such as music performances in local schools, biographical headstones for musicians buried in previously unmarked graves, instrument making workshops for kids at community events, jug band workshops, jug band merchandise and a free annual festival featuring the country's best jug bands.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The National Jug Band Jubilee celebrates the history of jug band music in Louisville, KY. The Jubilee focuses on the education and historic preservation through activities such as music performances in local schools, biographical headstones for musicians buried in previously unmarked graves, instrument making workshops for kids at community events, jug band workshops, jug band merchandise and a free annual festival featuring the country's best jug bands.
$3,410 spent57% of program spendingWe co-produced a show with the Louisville Folk School as part of their Spring 2025 concert series, featuring Jerron Paxton and KY Wild Horse at the 21c museum in Louisville.
$2,500 spent42% of program spendingThe National Jug Band Jubilee did a kid's activity tent at the city of Louisville's Waterfront 4th of July event on the waterfront. We made and decorated homemade instruments to show how Jug Bands incorporated homemade and found objects into their music.
$85 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,995.
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.
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 $25k to $15k (−41%).
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.
100% of NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $7k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE 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
NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 67% · 2019 63% · 2020 33% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Kentucky
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE 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 NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC?
- NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,026 to it, the largest being OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($11,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $33,026 in grants to NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC?
- OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL JUG BAND JUBILEE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 6 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