· Public charity
Sweet Adelines International Corporation
Elevating women singers worldwide through education, performance, and competition in barbershop harmony and a cappella music.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $10,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,726 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,826 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWEET ADELINES NORTH METRO CHAPTER | $3,200 |
| HARBORLITES CHAPTER | $2,400 |
| METRO NASHVILLE | $1,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SWEET ADELINES SKYLINE CHAPTER | $800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $800 |
| NEW MEXICO YOUTH HARMONY CAMP | $500 |
| SWEET ADELINES REGION 16 | $400 |
| HEARTSONG FOUNDATION | $200 |
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 (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% 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
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- SASWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL3× · 2017–2019 · $10k
- SASweet Adelines International Harborlites Chapter4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue -52%
- SASWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL4× · 2017–2020 · $7k
Funded once
- SASWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +356%
- SASWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONALone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SASWEET ADELINES ENCHANTED MESAone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
A chorus of women dedicated to learning and creating unique vocal harmony in the barbershop style.
Perform in Shows and Competitions for the purpose of member education and greater public interest, in the Art of Barbershop Harmony.
Teaching/Performing Organization - Barbershop Singing
Advancing the musical art form of Barbershop Harmony
Advancing the musical art form of womens' barbershop harmony through education and performance.
Elevate women singers
Music education and performance
A cappella vocal group
We are a Region of Sweet Adelnes International Our primary purpose is to educate our members and communities in the art of a cappella barbershop singing
Provide Music Education
Education Perfomances in the barbershop genre
The organization is formed to educate and advance the barbershop form of singing by women.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sweet Adelines International and the most unlike its peers is Chandler School Boosters Inc. 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 71 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
11 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. 11 of the 34 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 Sweet Adelines International Harborlites Chapter ↗
- Who funds SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL Cincinnati Sound Chorus ↗
- Who funds SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL OK CITY ↗
- Who funds CHANDLER SCHOOL BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Song of Atlanta ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE CHORUS CHAPTER SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SHORES REGION 12 SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CITY OF LAKES CHAPTER SWEET ADELINE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Sweet Adelines International Corporation 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.
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