The gifts have come from individual donors and corporate benefactors such as JBL, which has provided speakers and equipment, as well as guitar makers Fender and Gibson, among others.
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Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2026
Additionally, these revenue-sharing numbers don’t include third-party NIL payments, which can provide a significant advantage to schools with a large alumni base — or with wealthy benefactors, which has been the case at Oregon (Phil Knight) and Indiana (Mark Cuban), for instance.
The Talarico campaign cited data indicating that the vast majority of its revenue has come from donations under $100 and that teachers are the most common occupation among its donors.
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Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Mar. 2026
The funds would be available to kindergarten through high school students in public or private schools or home school students, though the referendum left out that donors who give up to $1,700 to scholarship awarding organizations receive the same amount back in federal tax credits.
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