Virginia · Nonprofit
VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD
VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,047 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 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
- $276k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $233k
What Virginia's Heritage Music Trail the Crooked Road does
Mission
To generate tourism and economic development in the appalachian region of southwest virginia by focusing on the region's unique musical heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The crooked road's mission is to generate a positive economic impact through increased tourism, in the organization's nineteen county appalachian regions of southwest virginia, by focusing on the region's unique musical heritage. This mission is accomplished through the traditional music education program and other ongoing educational partnerships; outreach activities related to advertising the crooked road's venues, affiliates and events; maintaining a website presence and social media accounts; contracting artists for crooked road on tour and mountains of music homecoming concerts; and by providing support at related events and festivals including the international bluegrass music association
$205,932 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $205,932.
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 2020 to 2021, from $89k to $221k (+149%).
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 48% · 2018 44% · 2019 48% · 2020 88% · 2021 68% · 2022 76% · 2023 77% · 2024 87% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $16.
2 of 2 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 VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD’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
VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD'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. $15k 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
VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD is better cushioned than half 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
Government funding VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $279k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$215k
- Appalachian Regional Commission$64k
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 VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD
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.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD?
- VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,047 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($15,000). 2 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 VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,047 in grants to VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA'S HERITAGE MUSIC TRAIL THE CROOKED ROAD 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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