Florida · Nonprofit
Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble
Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $326,727 to it, the largest being Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc ($152,444). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The University of the Artsshared funders
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio match
- New Music USA Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 13% · 2022 18% · 2023 25% · 2024 15% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $29k → $35k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 51% · 2019 53% · 2020 40% · 2021 66% · 2022 58% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The University of the Artsshared fundersPA · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Music USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chamber Music America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music Matters Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Network of Ensemble Theaters Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Funding Arts Broward Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Prize Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19k on record — $10k federal, $9k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
- Educational Services$9k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble?
- Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $326,727 to it, the largest being Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc ($152,444). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $326,727 in grants to Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble?
- Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc is the largest funder on record, with $152,444 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Aequalis Inc dba The Core Ensemble find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing