Appalachian Fiddle & Blue Grass Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237380670
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Wind Gap, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4842722906
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,682
- Expenses
- $65,654
- Assets
- $268,488
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PETE SAVARY (PRESIDENT)
- ALBERT LEPOSA (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PETE SAVARY (PRESIDENT)
- ALBERT LEPOSA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PAUL PHALON (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To preserve and promote a unique form of american country folk music and to educate the membership and general public on bluegrass music.
What it reported doing in 2024
At the festival, run a free youth academy to teach children to play bluegrass instruments and play in a band setting. The children play on stage on the final day of the festival.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.7%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 67.7%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.09; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.7% of revenue deployed · 67.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.