Virginia · Nonprofit
TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC
TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,914 to it, the largest being REA CHARITABLE TRUST ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $127k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Tidewater Classic Guitar Society Inc does
Mission
Tidewater Classical Guitar is dedicated to enriching the community by cultivating the awareness and appreciation of classical guitar and related instruments through performance education and outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Education - Tidewater Classical Guitar provided classical guitar music instruction to over 50 students residing in low-middle income communities during the Fiscal Year 2025. This instruction is provided after regular school hours in Norfolk Virginia. Tidewater Classical Guitar was a resource for music educators throughout the region.
$7,032 spent8% of program spendingOutreach - Outreach Programs allow students at area public schools and other community organizations to engage with a professional teaching artist and performer and is focused on group engagement and classroom collaboration to bring students together through music. Students interact with a professional artist specializing in solo guitar and embrace ensemble playing and music coaching. This program has benefited over 300 persons and has assisted in elevating expectations of guitar education in public schools. Outreach areas include Chesapeake Norfolk Virginia Beach Suffolk Newport News and Williamsburg Virginia. In addition TCG operates and directs the Tidewater Guitar Orchestra which gives access to musical ensemble and performance experiences to all members of the community.
$13,933 spent15% of program spendingConcerts and Performances - We presented 14 in-person guitar concerts featuring internationally acclaimed artists and local professionals. Many of these concerts were also livestreamed. The number of persons that benefited from in-person attendance was 2,577. In addition to these concerts we presented local artists in events throughout our region. TCG sponsorship of these concerts and performances assists in advancing interest in and promoting the art of playing classical guitar in various communities throughout our region.
$70,888 spent77% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,853.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $41k to $54k (+31%).
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.
50% of TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Patrick Garrison
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $93.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY 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
TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 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
62% of TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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
TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY 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 Virginia
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC?
- TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,914 to it, the largest being REA CHARITABLE TRUST ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $29,914 in grants to TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC?
- REA CHARITABLE TRUST 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 TIDEWATER CLASSIC GUITAR SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2023–2025), 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