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Varna International Music Academy

Varna International Music Academy (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,500 to it, the largest being FRANCES P BUNNELLE FOUNDATION COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$-42552
0/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Varna International Music Academy does

Mission

To hold annual music academies and educational tours focusing on teaching students advanced music concepts and allowing them to practice their skills in opera productions, musicals, and choral-orchestral performances.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

New program - VIMA will be restarting programs shut do to Covid. In 2023 VIMA will have its Academy program for instruction and performance in Bulgaria and Italy; it also will be involved in the MUZIKA festival in the summer of 2023.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. Varna International Music Academy restarted its international music teaching academy and educational tours in Italy; it also produced and managed the Academy for teaching and performing the Muzika! festival all around the state of South Carolina.

    $1,329,289 spent$811,421 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,329,289.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($456k) Expenses 100 ($251k) Net assets 100 ($221k)2021 Revenue 31 ($143k) Expenses 33 ($83k) Net assets 127 ($281k)2022 Revenue 269 ($1.2M) Expenses 487 ($1.2M) Net assets 128 ($284k)2023 Revenue 142 ($646k) Expenses 353 ($888k) Net assets 19 ($42k)2024 Revenue 267 ($1.2M) Expenses 565 ($1.4M) Net assets -73 ($-162285)2025 Revenue 244 ($1.1M) Expenses 395 ($994k) Net assets -19 ($-42552)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (244)Expenses (395)Net assets (-19)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 $450k to $139k (−69%).

$221k
$281k
$450k
$139k
$43k
$168k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 38% · 2022 11% · 2023 24% · 2024 9% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

31% of Varna International Music Academy’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$205k
’20
$60k
’21
$3k
’22
−$242k
’23
−$205k
’24
$120k
’25
0.9
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed455555
Joined·+2+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·10000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $22k → $13k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Varna International Music Academy’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

Varna International Music Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

55% 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 Varna International Music Academy.

29%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 41% · 2022 80% — 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

67% of Varna International Music Academy's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

MN
SC

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

’21
’22
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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

Varna International Music Academy has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Varna International Music Academy

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
40%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Varna International Music Academy: 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 Varna International Music Academy?
Varna International Music Academy (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,500 to it, the largest being FRANCES P BUNNELLE FOUNDATION COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Varna International Music Academy have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $34,500 in grants to Varna International Music Academy.
Who is the largest funder of Varna International Music Academy?
FRANCES P BUNNELLE FOUNDATION COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SC 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 Varna International Music Academy find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2020–2025), 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