· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Harmony Foundation International Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Society for the Preservation & Encourage of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Society for the Preservation & Encourage of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. Bigger dots raise more.