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Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc

Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,500 to it, the largest being HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ($72,062). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$27k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$116k
Net assets
$55k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc does

Mission

The Alexandria Chapter seeks to entertain, educate, and enrich lives through excellence in choral artistry. In addition we perpetuate the barbershop style of music by sharing it with people of all ages and diversity, to promote the education of our members and the public in music appreciation, and to participate in charitable projects and community outreach.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Choral Programs: Member services. Provide program services for about 170 chapter members to support chapter music programs, shows, educational activities, public relations, meetings, printing, travel and convention services. Provide chapter members with social activities, and group ordering of convention registrations, meals, and photographs.

    $14,637 spent
    67% of program spending

  2. Choral Programs: Performance support. Provide performance support to choral groups, providing risers and sound equipment with setup and transportation support. In current reporting year, supported six events.

    $5,990 spent
    27% of program spending

  3. Choral Programs: Music education. Provide and support musical education for youth, competing chapter quartets, fellow international competitors, and other performing arts organizations, through educational stipends, grants, awards, and gifts, schools, and clinics. In current reporting year, support was provided via donations to another 501(c)3 organization reaching several hundred recipients.

    $1,101 spentof which $1,101 as grants
    5% of program spending

  4. Choral Programs: Music development. Support for training, educating, coaching, and rehearsing two competitive barbershop choruses to participate in Barbershop Harmony Society contests and conventions (one in current reporting year).

    $70 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,798.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($48k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 144 ($68k) Expenses 136 ($65k) Net assets 108 ($47k)2020 Revenue 133 ($63k) Expenses 126 ($60k) Net assets 116 ($51k)2021 Revenue 59 ($28k) Expenses 32 ($15k) Net assets 145 ($64k)2022 Revenue 74 ($35k) Expenses 81 ($39k) Net assets 137 ($60k)2023 Revenue 50 ($24k) Expenses 48 ($23k) Net assets 139 ($61k)2024 Revenue 28 ($13k) Expenses 34 ($16k) Net assets 133 ($58k)2025 Revenue 56 ($27k) Expenses 63 ($30k) Net assets 125 ($55k)
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Revenue (56)Expenses (63)Net assets (125)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $51k to $64k (+25%).

$44k
$47k
$51k
$64k
$60k
$61k
$58k
$55k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

33% of Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’17
$3k
’18
$3k
’20
$13k
’21
−$3k
’22
$1k
’23
−$3k
’24
−$3k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Stanley Quick

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $24k → $5k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1
1
2
1
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc’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

Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc.

62%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 100% · 2022 66% · 2023 100% — 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

Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.

VA
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc's revenue fell 44% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−13% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Society for Preservation & Encourmt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer80%Alexandria Harmonizers Inc79%Alexandria Singers77%Virginia Chorale77%Forest Park High School Choral Boosters Inc76%The Arlington Childrens Chorus76%Richmond Boys Choir Inc76%Arlington Chapter of the Links Incorporated76%

Nationally

Bellevue Chapter SPEBSQSA84%Society for Preservation & Encrgmnt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer83%Pioneer District Association of Chapters of SPEBSQSA inc83%Central States District Assn of Chapters Spebsqsa Inc82%SPEBSQSA Inc - Rochester Chapter M02582%Song of Atlanta82%Society for Preservation & Encourmt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer81%Springfield Chapter of Sweet Adelines International dba Sound Celebration Chor80%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc?
Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,500 to it, the largest being HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ($72,062). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $115,500 in grants to Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc?
HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $72,062 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Alexandria Virginia Chapter of SPEBSQSA Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing