Vermont · Nonprofit
OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,370 to it, the largest being THE CRICKET FDN JENNIFER L GRIGG TRUSTEE ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Otter Creek Music Festival Inc does
Mission
Otter Creek Music Festival (formerly known as - Compass Music and Arts Foundation) is dedicated to enriching life through a deeper appreciation of music and the literary, performing and visual arts.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Following the Pandemic Closedown and the floating off of Barn Opera as a separate entity in 2021, the Foundation has been effectively dormant during the year, due mainly to personal circumstances affecting board members, and the temporary unavailability of the venue normally used for events. This is in preparation for a re-organization and re-launch in 2024, a new board has been implemented for 2024 along with programs.
$916 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $916.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $301k to $7k (−98%).
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.
0% of OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL 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
OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% 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 OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% — 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
OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
Against its field
OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
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 Vermont
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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
- OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,370 to it, the largest being THE CRICKET FDN JENNIFER L GRIGG TRUSTEE ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,370 in grants to OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
- THE CRICKET FDN JENNIFER L GRIGG TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 2 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