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SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY

SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,477 to it, the largest being JOHN MOHME FOUNDATION ($13,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$18k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$31k
Net assets
$14k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Sacramento Guitar Society does

Mission

Promote the Art of the Guitar

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Support for 3 Guitar Orchestras, 2 in Sacramento, 1 in Davis CA

    $4,974 spent
    66% of program spending
  2. Holiday Concert, 2 Spring Concerts and Young Adult Showcase

    $2,524 spent
    34% of program spending
  3. Guitar Instruction for Veterans, Guitars for Vets

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,498.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($16k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($19k)2023 Revenue 114 ($18k) Expenses 79 ($23k) Net assets 71 ($13k)2024 Revenue 161 ($26k) Expenses 81 ($23k) Net assets 91 ($17k)2025 Revenue 109 ($18k) Expenses 71 ($20k) Net assets 76 ($14k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (109)Expenses (71)Net assets (76)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 2022 to 2023, from $19k to $13k (−29%).

$19k
$13k
$17k
$14k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

85% of SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’22
−$4k
’23
$3k
’24
−$3k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $5k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY’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

SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% — 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

87% of SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY's grant income comes from California funders.

AK
NY
CA

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

’17
’18
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300 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

SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY

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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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY?
SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,477 to it, the largest being JOHN MOHME FOUNDATION ($13,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $31,477 in grants to SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY?
JOHN MOHME FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SACRAMENTO GUITAR SOCIETY 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 2022–2025), 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