Georgia · Nonprofit
SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC
SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC (Georgia) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,744,781 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($598,813). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Savannah Music Festivalinc does
Mission
The savannah music festival is dedicated to presenting a world-class celebration of the musical arts by creating timeless and adventurous productions that stimulate arts education, foster economic growth, and unite artists and audiences in georgia's first city.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization sponsored the savannah music festval in april of 2025,during the event, 18,566 tickets were sold to events and there were 8,517 participants in the education programs offered and 111 teachers were provided with professional development training.
$3,254,846 spent$1,161,484 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,254,846.
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 $1.4M to $2.6M (+80%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 7% · 2022 27% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $170k → $336k.
13 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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: $435k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC raised.
From the IRS filings of SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. 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
SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
47% 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 SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 44% · 2019 36% · 2020 43% · 2021 21% · 2022 38% · 2023 27% — 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
57% of SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
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
66% of SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $305k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$305k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: 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 SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC?
- SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC (Georgia) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,744,781 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($598,813). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $2,744,781 in grants to SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $598,813 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC 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 54 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