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IBMA Foundation
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IBMA Foundation Project Grants
The IBMA Foundation offers annual project grants to support initiatives aligned with its mission of advancing bluegrass music and related community, educational, or cultural activities.
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- Not listed
Arnold Shultz Fund Grant (IBMA Foundation) — Rhiannon Giddens Fellowship
The IBMA Foundation’s Arnold Shultz Fund supports bluegrass-related arts, culture, education, literary work, and historic preservation and in 2026 awarded one of 13 grants to The Schwarzman Centre at the University of Oxford to host Rhiannon Giddens as inaugural Cultural Fellow for 2025–26, producing research articles, student and public performances, and published materials to be shared with the Foundation.
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- Not listed
Arnold Shultz Fund Grants (IBMA Foundation)
The IBMA Foundation's Arnold Shultz Fund provides grants to increase participation in bluegrass music by people of color who are underrepresented in the genre, supporting festivals, camps, scholarships, instrument provision, fellowships, educational programs and individual study or teaching.
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- $18,500
Planning Stages Scholarship for Live Music Production
The IBMA Foundation, established with support from Planning Stages, Inc., offers the Planning Stages Scholarship for Live Music Production to support students preparing for careers in live music event production, talent buying, planning, technical, and related fields.
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- Amount
- $2,000
The Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship
The IBMA Foundation offers the $1,000 Gloria Belle Memorial Scholarship to honor bluegrass musician Gloria Belle and support students pursuing postsecondary education.
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- Amount
- $1,000
Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award
The IBMA Foundation’s Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award recognizes outstanding bluegrass-related research presented at a juried academic conference in the previous year or completed as a thesis.
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- Amount
- $1,000
Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award
The IBMA Foundation’s Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award recognizes the best bluegrass-related paper accepted by a juried academic conference in the previous year, supporting high-quality scholarship on any aspect of the genre.
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- Amount
- $500
Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award
The IBMA Foundation’s Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award recognizes high-quality research on bluegrass music and offers a $500 honorarium plus admission to the next IBMA Business Conference and Awards Show.
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- Amount
- $500
Arnold Shultz Fund — IBMA Foundation project and individual grants
The Arnold Shultz Fund, established by the IBMA Foundation in 2020, provides grants to support initiatives that increase the participation of people of color in bluegrass music.
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- Not listed
- Amount
- $30,000
Bill Breen Bluegrass Youth Education Fund
The IBMA Foundation has established the Bill Breen Bluegrass Youth Education Fund, honoring William (Bill) Breen, to support young individuals in learning and engaging with bluegrass music.
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- Not listed
- Amount
- $100,000
The Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award
The IBMA Foundation offers the annual Neil Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholar Award, providing a $1,000 honorarium and admission to the next IBMA Business Conference and Awards Show to the developing academic scholar who presents the best paper accepted by a juried academic conference on an aspect of bluegrass music.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $1,000
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