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Chorus America

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

$510k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.7M
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $452,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $509,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
B-NATIONAL ARTS INSTITUTE$25,000
COMMUSICATION$25,000
AUGUST HERITAGE CENTER INC$25,000
REFUGEE CHOIR PROJECT$22,500
ABQ CORO LUX$22,500
COMPAS INC$22,500
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS$22,500
SNS CHOIRS$22,500
LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY$22,500
BORDER CROSSING$22,500
MOUNTAIN EMPIRE CHILDRENS CHORAL ACADEMY$20,000
VOCALESSENCE$20,000
SURRY ARTS COUNCIL$20,000
PHOENIX CHILDRENS CHORUS$20,000
THE HARMONY PROJECT$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DESERT SOUNDS PERFORMING ARTS INC: $21k → 11%TUCSON GIRLS CHORUS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 15%BI-NATIONAL ARTS INSTITUTE: $30k → 18%COMPAS INC: $30k → 11%BORDER CROSSING: $30k → 14%OCEANSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $30k → 11%LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%QUINTESSENCE CHORAL ARTISTS OF THE SOUTHWEST: $20k → 14%WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $30k → 17%PACIFIC YOUTH CHOIR: $21k → 12%MOUNTAIN EMPIRE CHILDRENS CHORAL ACADEMY: $20k → 14%LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY: $23k → 20%VOICES IN THE LAUREL INC: $20k → 12%LAKE EDEN ARTS FESTIVAL: $30k → 12%MACON COUNTY SCHOOL: $30k → 12%SURRY ARTS COUNCIL: $30k → 17%REFUGEE CHOIR PROJECT: $23k → 9%DAVIS AND ELKINS COLLEGE: $30k → 17%BLUEFIELD PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $30k → 21%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $23k → 15%DESERT SOUNDS PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20k → 11%TUCSON GIRLS CHORUS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 15%BI-NATIONAL ARTS INSTITUTE: $25k → 18%COMPAS INC: $25k → 11%BORDER CROSSING: $25k → 14%SAN DIEGO CHILDRENS CHOIR: $20k → 11%SNS CHOIRS: $23k → 14%ABQ CORO LUX: $23k → 14%WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $25k → 17%PACIFIC YOUTH CHOIR: $21k → 12%VOICES IN THE LAUREL INC: $20k → 12%LAKE EDEN ARTS FESTIVAL: $26k → 12%MACON COUNTY SCHOOL: $25k → 12%SURRY ARTS COUNCIL: $25k → 17%DAVIS AND ELKINS COLLEGE: $25k → 17%BLUEFIELD PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $25k → 21%PHOENIX CHILDRENS CHORUS: $20k → 11%COMMUSICATION: $25k → 14%GRAND VISION FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%AUGUST HERITAGE CENTER INC: $25k → 17%B-NATIONAL ARTS INSTITUTE: $25k → 18%VOCALESSENCE: $30k → 11%COMPAS INC: $23k → 14%GRAND VISION FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR ASSOCIATION: $30k → 11%VOCALESSENCE: $25k → 11%BORDER CROSSING: $23k → 14%PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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MN
WI
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KY
WV
AZ
NM
TN
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
1

Total granted

$1.4M
$30k

Still filing today

94%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CI
    COMPAS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $98k · revenue +43%
  • BC
    BORDER CROSSING
    4× · 2022–2025 · $98k · revenue +77%
  • SP
    Seattle Pro Musica
    3× · 2022–2024 · $76k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • OU
    OCEANSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Esoterics

The Esoterics is a Seattle-based vocal ensemble, dedicated to performing and perpetuating contemporary choral music from around the world.

Arts & Culture
2
Muse Cincinnati Womens Choir

MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity…

Arts & Culture
3
Nielsen Chorale
Arts & Culture
4
The Lanier Singers Inc

The Lanier Chamber Singers, lnc. is a community chorus that promotes choral singing in Gainesville and Hall County, Georgia. The organization is committed to enhancing the cultural lives of citizens in our area by performing classical and…

Arts & Culture
5
Cor Cantiamo Nfp

Promote Contemporary Choral Music

Arts & Culture
6
Mosaic Youth Chorus
Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco City Chorus Association

Educate chorus members and perform concerts

Philanthropy
8
Bellevue Chamber Chorus

We are a Chamber Chorus performing music from all musical periods to develop and expand performing arts in the Greater Eastside of the Seattle Area

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9
Chicago Choral Artists Dba Consonance

Chicago Choral Artists endeavor to heighten appreciation of the choral art form through outstanding presentation of classical masterworks and music of the world's many cultures and by commissions. The ensemble seeks to nurture the artistic…

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10
Vanguard Concerts
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11
Boulder Chorale

To enrich and inspire a broad community through music.

Arts & Culture
12
Voices of Silicon Valley

Community Music / Arts Organization

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Childrens Chorus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Memorial University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,534

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
12/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BI-NATIONAL ARTS INSTITUTE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureBI-NATIONAL ARTS INSTITUTECOMPAS INC — $97,500 · Arts & CultureCOMPAS INCBORDER CROSSING — $97,500 · Arts & CultureBORDER CROSSINGTHE PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR ASSOCIATION — $95,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR ASSOCIATIONVOCALESSENCE — $95,000 · Arts & CultureVOCALESSENCELEAF GLOBAL ARTS — $76,000 · Arts & CultureLEAF GLOBAL ARTSTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTucson Girls Chorus Association IncBLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION — $75,000 · Arts & CultureBLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATIONWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INCVOICES IN THE LAUREL INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureVOICES IN THE LAUREL INCPACIFIC YOUTH CHOIR — $56,000 · Arts & CultureDESERT SOUNDS PERFORMING ARTS INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureVOX FEMINA LOS ANGELES — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $132,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreSURRY ARTS COUNCIL — $95,000 · OtherSURRY ARTS COUNCILSeattle Pro Musica — $76,000 · OtherSeattle Pro MusicaMACON COUNTY SCHOOL — $75,000 · OtherMACON COUNTY SCHOOLOCEANSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $30,000 · OtherOCEANSIDE UNIFIED SCHOOL D…AUGUST HERITAGE CENTER INC — $25,000 · OtherAUGUST HERITAGE CENTER INCSNS CHOIRS — $22,500 · OtherSNS CHOIRSLA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE INC — $20,000 · OtherSan Diego Children's Choir — $20,000 · OtherQuintessence A Community of Singers — $20,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN EMPIRE CHILDRENS CHORAL ACADEMY — $20,000 · OtherDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE — $75,000 · EducationLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY — $22,500 · EducationHarmony Project — $20,000 · EducationGRAND VISION FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$1,144,500Other$403,500Education$117,500Philanthropy$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBI-NATIONAL ARTS INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetCOMPAS INC — $97,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBORDER CROSSING — $97,500 over 4y, 20% of budgetTHE PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR ASSOCIATION — $95,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetVOCALESSENCE — $95,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSURRY ARTS COUNCIL — $95,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSeattle Pro Musica — $76,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetLEAF GLOBAL ARTS — $76,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBLUEFIELD ARTS AND REVITALIZATION CORPORATION — $75,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGRAND VISION FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetVOICES IN THE LAUREL INC — $65,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetPACIFIC YOUTH CHOIR — $56,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetDESERT SOUNDS PERFORMING ARTS INC — $55,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetVOX FEMINA LOS ANGELES — $50,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCOMMUSICATION — $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetLINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY — $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee Choir Project — $22,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetABQ Coro Lux — $22,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetPHOENIX CHILDRENS CHORUS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSan Diego Children's Choir — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHarmony Project — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN EMPIRE CHILDRENS CHORAL ACADEMY — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mardag FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Ibm International Fou…Mightycause Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…
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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Chorus America funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Pacific Youth Choir — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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