Indiana Fiddlers Gathering Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351810126
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Battle Ground, IN, USA
- Phone
- 7657145291
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,619
- Expenses
- $81,953
- Assets
- $113,979
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY CUNNINGHAM (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CARL SCHWAMBERGER (DIRECTOR)
- GARY CUNNINGHAM (PRESIDENT)
- JEFFREY BOSWELL (DIRECTOR)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Traditional music performance, education & preservation
What it reported doing in 2025
Performances of traditional music at festival and other shows throughout the year. The 3 day annual music festival in late june had approximately 1,000 attendees. Indiana fiddlers helped fund after school arts program instrumental classes. A 3 day camp was organized in september for string instrumentalists interested in learning old time Indiana music.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.1%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.39; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.3% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.