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Sweet Adelines International Corporation

Elevating women singers worldwide through education, performance, and competition in barbershop harmony and a cappella music.

$15k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
8
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$37kYouth Development$25kCommunity Improvement$3kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$1kEducation$1kRecreation & Sports$800Other$0
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $10,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,726 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,826 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$800
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHS TREBLEMAKERS: $1k → 11%TUCSON DESERT HARMONY CHAPTER: $4k → 15%DOWNINGTON EAST BARBERSHOP FESTIVAL: $400 → 6%PACIFIC SHORES REGION 12: $800 → 9%HARBORLITES CHAPTER: $2k → 10%INLAND EMPIRE CHAPTER: $2k → 11%REGION 25 YOUNG SINGERS EDUCATION DAY: $4k → 5%HEARTSONG FOUNDATION: $200 → 10%SWEET ADELINES ENCHANTED MESA: $2k → 14%OKLAHOMA CITY YOUTH IN HARMONY WORKSHOP: $1k → 13%SWEET ADELINES REGION 16: $783 → 15%SWEET ADELINES OKLAHOMA CITY CHAPTER: $300 → 16%PENSACOLA SOUND CHAPTER: $400 → 16%METRO MIX CHAPTER: $520 → 9%TOPEKA A CAPPELLA UNLIMITED CHAPTER: $720 → 15%SUPER SING ORGANIZATIONH: $2k → 5%VALLEE DE CROIX CHAPTER: $800 → 9%OREGON SPIRIT CHAPTER: $2k → 8%METRO NASHVILLE: $2k → 4%SONG OF ATLANTA CHAPTER: $800 → 9%SWEET ADELINES SKYLINE CHAPTER: $800 → 12%GREATER CINCINATI HARMONY FESTIVAL: $420 → 16%HARMONY EXPLOSION NW: $4k → 9%ROLLING HILLS CHAPTER: $480 → 11%VERMILLION VALLEY SHOW CHAPTER: $2k → 11%SWEET ADELINES PRIDE OF KENTUCKY: $1k → 4%A CAPPELLA FESTIVAL OF KENTUKIANA: $2k → 15%TUCSON DESERT HARMONY CHAPTER: $3k → 15%HARBORLITES CHAPTER: $2k → 10%INLAND EMPIRE CHAPTER: $2k → 11%SWEET ADELINES REGION 16: $400 → 15%TOPEKA A CAPPELLA UNLIMITED CHAPTER: $180 → 15%VALLEE DE CROIX CHAPTER: $200 → 9%METRO NASHVILLE: $2k → 4%SOUTHERN GATEWAY CHORUS: $2k → 16%HARMONY EXPLOSION NW: $1k → 9%VERMILLION VALLEY SHOW CHAPTER: $2k → 11%PRIDE OF KENTUCKY CHORUS: $640 → 15%TUCSON DESERT HARMONY CHAPTER: $700 → 15%HARBORLITES CHAPTER: $2k → 10%INLAND EMPIRE CHAPTER: $1k → 11%SWEET ADELINES METRO MIX CHAPTER: $130 → 15%METRO NASHVILLE: $2k → 4%CINCINNATI SOUND CHAPTER: $2k → 16%SOUTHERN ARIZONA YOUTH IN HARMONY: $3k → 15%HARBORLITES CHAPTER: $2k → 10%METRO NASHVILLE: $2k → 4%CINCINNATI SOUND CHAPTER: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
WI
OR
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
AZ
NM
KS
TN
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 14 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
15

Total granted

$52k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+33%

Still filing today

29%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10k
  • SA
    Sweet Adelines International Harborlites Chapter
    4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue -38%
  • SA
    SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $7k

Funded once

  • SA
    SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +356%
  • SA
    SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • SA
    SWEET ADELINES ENCHANTED MESA
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sweet Adelines International Grand Rapids Chapter

A chorus of women dedicated to learning and creating unique vocal harmony in the barbershop style.

Arts & Culture
2
Sweet Adelines International - Melodeers Chapter

Perform in Shows and Competitions for the purpose of member education and greater public interest, in the Art of Barbershop Harmony.

Arts & Culture
3
Sweet Adelines International Harmony Northwest Chapter

Teaching/Performing Organization - Barbershop Singing

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4
Sweet Adelines International

Advancing the musical art form of Barbershop Harmony

Arts & Culture
5
Sweet Adelines International

Advancing the musical art form of womens' barbershop harmony through education and performance.

Arts & Culture
6
Sweet Adelines International

Elevate women singers

Arts & Culture
7
Sweet Adelines International

Music education and performance

Arts & Culture
8
Sweet Adelines Int'l - a Cappella Joy Chorus

A cappella vocal group

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9
Sweet Adelines International

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

Arts & Culture
10
Sweet Adelines International

Provide Music Education

Arts & Culture
11
Heart of Michigan Sweet Adelines

Education Perfomances in the barbershop genre

Arts & Culture
12
Sweet Adelines International

The organization is formed to educate and advance the barbershop form of singing by women.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sweet Adelines International; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $9,800 · OtherSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONALSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $6,560 · OtherSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONALIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $4,400 · OtherSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONALSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $4,200 · OtherSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONALSWEET ADELINES NORTH METRO CHAPTER: $3,200 · OtherSWEET ADELINES NORTH METRO CHAPTERSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $2,370 · OtherSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $2,240 · OtherSOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCOURMT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER: $2,100 · OtherSWEET ADELINES ENCHANTED MESA: $2,000 · Other+14 more: $9,883 · Other+14 moreSweet Adelines International Harborlites Chapter: $8,240 · Arts & CultureSweet Adelines International Harb…SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $4,320 · Arts & CultureSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONALSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL Cincinnati Sound Chorus: $3,200 · Arts & CultureSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL Cinc…SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $2,240 · Arts & CultureSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONALSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL OK CITY: $1,200 · Arts & CultureSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL OK C…Song of Atlanta: $800 · Arts & CultureSKYLINE CHORUS CHAPTER SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $800 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC SHORES REGION 12 SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $800 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $400 · Arts & CultureCHANDLER SCHOOL BOOSTERS INC: $1,200 · Education
Other$51,753Arts & Culture$22,000Education$1,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSweet Adelines International Harborlites Chapter: $8,240 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $2,240 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHANDLER SCHOOL BOOSTERS INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKYLINE CHORUS CHAPTER SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $800 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPACIFIC SHORES REGION 12 SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $800 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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 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 CHANDLER SCHOOL BOOSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL OK CITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sweet Adelines International Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sweet Adelines International Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Sweet Adelines International Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Sweet Adelines International Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $90k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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