California · Nonprofit
REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC
REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $346 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($346). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $305k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $346
- Net assets
- $87k
What Redwood Coast Music Festivals Inc does
Mission
To organize, promote, and present music-based festivals and events that stimulate the local economy, enhance tourism in the humboldt bay region, support youth music education and senior programs, and promote inter-generational and multi-cultural opportunities through music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For over 30 years, the rcmf board has organized, promoted, and presented the redwood coast music festival, a four day event featuring a variety of music including jazz, swing, zydeco, blues, and more. The weekend features a variety of headliner bands, guest artists, youth bands, and local bands who perform for over 4,500 music and dance enthusiasts. In total, there are over 100 sets of music starting with the kick off dance on thursday night. Local businesses and individuals help sponsor this event. The festival is organized by an all-volunteer board and is assisted by community volunteers who help operate the venues.
$298,493 spent$186,727 earned by the program100% of program spendingRcmf also collected used musical instruments, paid to have them restored, and then donated instruments to local school music programs. Rcmf supported other nonprofit oganizations by donating tickets and merchandise for their fundraising events.
Rcmf supported local seniors by providing free music events at the festival and reduced ticket prices. In addition, rcmf supported the youth by providing a special free music concert for local schools and free music clinics for selected schools.
The organization supported other local nonprofit organizations by donating tickets and merchandise for their fundraising events.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $298,493.
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 2019 to 2020, from $46k to $86k (+90%).
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.
39% of REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Mark Jansen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $58 → $65.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $346 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
REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC has grown faster than half of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS 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 REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC?
- REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $346 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($346). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $346 in grants to REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $346 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REDWOOD COAST MUSIC FESTIVALS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 1 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