· Public charity
Society for the Preservation & Encourage of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America
The barbershop harmony society brings people together in harmony and fellowship to enrich lives through singing.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION & ENCOURAGE OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING IN AMERICA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $33,674 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $180,943 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $147,269 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.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANS 'O LAKES DISTRICT SPEBSQSA INC | $10,174 |
| BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL KORAL KLUB | $9,000 |
| NAPLESFORT MYERS FLORIDA CHAPTER SPEBSQSA INC | $8,500 |
| WADE HAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL CHORAL DEPARTMENT | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $32k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $28k to organizations and $4k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR CHOIR TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NEXT GENERATION BARBERSHOP JUNIOR CHORUS PROGRAM
Stated purpose: PARTICIPATION SCHOLARSHIP
Stated purpose: PARTICIPATION SCHOLARSHIP
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SFSOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCOURMT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +78%
- BSBHS SCHOLARSHIPS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $18k · revenue +12%
- SFSOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER2× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- AIAnna Independent School Districtone grant, 2022 · $11k
- SASWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL - SPIRIT OF SYRACUSEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +126%
- CPCOLUMBUS PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Perpetuate the American art form of barbershop singing.
To share and support music in our community
To Preserve the Barbershop Style of Music
Preserve Barbershop Harmony, an American Art Form
The preservation of the art of barbershop singing
Encouragement of Barbershop Singing
- To perpetuate the old American Institution of the Barbershop Quarter and Barbershop Harmony- To promote appreciation for Barbershop Harmony- To initiate and maintain a broad program of music education, contests, and appreciation in…
Preserve and encourage barbershop quartet singing in america
Promote benefits of singing in our community
Music performance and music education
To Protect and develop the Barbershop Style of Singing in America
Perpetuate the American art form of Barbershop Singing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for Preservation & Encourmt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer and the most unlike its peers is Bhs Scholarships Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCOURMT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER ↗
- Who funds BHS SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCOURMT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCOURMT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER ↗
- Who funds SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL - SPIRIT OF SYRACUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Harmony Foundation International Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Society for the Preservation & Encourage of Barbershop Quartet Singing in 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.
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.