How much does Chorus America give?

Chorus America reported 21 itemized grants totaling $452,500, out of $509,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 19 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.

What does Chorus America fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).

Who are Chorus America's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Bi-National Arts Institute ($100k), Compas Inc ($98k), Border Crossing ($98k).

Does Chorus America fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Chorus America?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mardag Foundation, Fr Bigelow Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Chorus America

CHORUS AMERICA strengthens singing communities with the advocacy, connections, and resources they need to be a vital part of society.

$510k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 21
Itemized grants FY2025: 18
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $453k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 19; FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 10
Total assets, FY2025: $2.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Chorus America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	21	$453k	67%
FY2024	18	$433k	0%
FY2023	18	$330k	0%
FY2022	19	$525k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.7M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Bi-National Arts Institute	$100,000	4	26%
Compas Inc	$97,500	4	2%
Border Crossing	$97,500	4	20%
Vocalessence	$95,000	4	1%
The Phoenix Boys Choir Association	$95,000	4	3%
Surry Arts Council	$95,000	4	1%
Seattle Pro Musica	$76,000	3	8%
Leaf Global Arts	$76,000	3	2%
Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc	$75,000	3	5%
Bluefield Arts and Revitalization Corporation	$75,000	3	7%

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All grantees of Chorus America by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Bi-National Arts Institute	$100,000	4	26%
Compas Inc	$97,500	4	2%
Border Crossing	$97,500	4	20%
Vocalessence	$95,000	4	1%
The Phoenix Boys Choir Association	$95,000	4	3%
Surry Arts Council	$95,000	4	1%
Seattle Pro Musica	$76,000	3	8%
Leaf Global Arts	$76,000	3	2%
Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc	$75,000	3	5%
Bluefield Arts and Revitalization Corporation	$75,000	3	7%
Davis & Elkins College	$75,000	3	0%
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc	$75,000	3	1%
Grand Vision Foundation	$75,000	3	2%
Voices in the Laurel Inc	$65,000	4	21%
Pacific Youth Choir	$56,000	3	5%
Desert Sounds Performing Arts Inc	$55,000	3	18%
Vox Femina Los Angeles	$50,000	3	5%
August Heritage Center Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Commusication	$25,000	1	7%
Montgomery County Council for the Arts	$22,500	1	n/a
Lincoln Memorial University	$22,500	1	0%
Refugee Choir Project	$22,500	1	13%
Sns Choirs	$22,500	1	n/a
ABQ Coro Lux	$22,500	1	12%
La Crosse Chamber Chorale Inc	$20,000	1	23%
Phoenix Childrens Chorus Inc	$20,000	1	2%
San Diego Children's Choir	$20,000	1	2%
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association	$20,000	1	0%
Quintessence A Community of Singers	$20,000	1	n/a
Harmony Project	$20,000	1	0%
Mountain Empire Childrens Choral Academy	$20,000	1	13%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.

Chorus America supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mardag FoundationMN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mardag Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Chorus America

How much does Chorus America give?: Chorus America reported 21 itemized grants totaling $452,500, out of $509,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 19 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Chorus America fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Chorus America's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Bi-National Arts Institute ($100k), Compas Inc ($98k), Border Crossing ($98k).
Does Chorus America fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Chorus America?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mardag Foundation, Fr Bigelow Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Chorus America based?: Chorus America is based in DC.