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WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC

WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250 to it, the largest being WILLIAM A STERN FOUNDATION ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$28k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$250
Net assets
$208k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Wayne Henderson Music Festival Inc does

Mission

To promote traditional appalachian music, to introduce appalachian audiences to traditional music from other cultures, and to provide scholarships for lical youth to attend traditional music camps and workshops

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Many students and communities benefited directly or indirectly from the scholarships provided to further the talents and introduction of traditional appalachian music, the availability of jam music camps and various community events that would not have been possible without the input and funding from the whmf organization.

    $53,291 spentof which $36,326 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,291.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($38k) Expenses 100 ($39k) Net assets 100 ($189k)2018 Revenue 184 ($70k) Expenses 109 ($43k) Net assets 114 ($215k)2019 Revenue 139 ($53k) Expenses 115 ($45k) Net assets 117 ($222k)2020 Revenue 22 ($9k) Expenses 83 ($33k) Net assets 104 ($198k)2021 Revenue 51 ($19k) Expenses 80 ($32k) Net assets 98 ($186k)2022 Revenue 146 ($55k) Expenses 106 ($42k) Net assets 105 ($199k)2023 Revenue 169 ($64k) Expenses 85 ($34k) Net assets 121 ($230k)2024 Revenue 220 ($84k) Expenses 198 ($78k) Net assets 124 ($235k)2025 Revenue 75 ($28k) Expenses 140 ($55k) Net assets 110 ($208k)
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Revenue (75)Expenses (140)Net assets (110)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 $199k to $230k (+15%).

$189k
$215k
$222k
$198k
$186k
$199k
$230k
$235k
$208k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$27k
’18
$7k
’19
−$24k
’20
−$12k
’21
$14k
’22
$31k
’23
$6k
’24
−$27k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL 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.

Where its funders are

WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−95% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · below the median

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

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250 to it, the largest being WILLIAM A STERN FOUNDATION ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $250 in grants to WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC.
Who is the largest funder of WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC?
WILLIAM A STERN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WAYNE HENDERSON MUSIC FESTIVAL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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