California · Nonprofit
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,723 to it, the largest being RASKOB FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES INC ($68,400). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $218k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $236k
- Net assets
- $66k
What American Federation of Pueri Cantores does
Mission
The mission of pueri cantores is to evangelize young people by introducing them to the power and beauty of sacred music, enriching their lives and growing them ever closer to their catholic faith.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Catholic youth choral festivals & Masses at local & national levels held in regional Cathedral, Basilica, or other church of architectural significance. AFPCs Treble voice festivals (gr 4-8), and Mixed Voice festivals (gr 4-12) are in the context of a Eucharistic liturgy, and feature a broad repertoire of Gregorian chant, classical & modern polyphonic music, & contemporary compositions. AFPCs High School Festivals (gr 9-12) explore a different mini-Masterwork each year, culminating in a late afternoon/evening concert accompanied by chamber orchestra. The repertoire learned for the annual festival can be sung in parish & school liturgies & concerts. A roster of esteemed guest conductors provides an engaging festival experience for the hundreds of participating choirs & their families.
$39,970 spent$116,922 earned by the program96% of program spendingAs a partner of the National Catholic Educational Association, AFPC also provides professional development opportunities for music teachers an no cost music education resources for Catholic schools in the US, including three free webinars to assist in the training of parochial school music teachers in the areas of childrens choral and vocal pedogogy.
$1,500 spent4% of program spendingEvery five years, an international congress is organized in Rome to enable all young Pueri Cantores choisters in the US and fellow federations around the world a once in their lives opportunity to meet the Pope and sing for a Papal liturgy in St. Peters Basilica.
$70,050 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $41,470.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $11k to $81k (+611%).
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.
71% of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES’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. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $31k → $16k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES’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
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
49% 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 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2019 54% · 2020 67% · 2021 88% · 2022 100% · 2023 64% — 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is 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.
Against its field
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES's revenue fell 16% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
25% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES?
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,723 to it, the largest being RASKOB FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES INC ($68,400). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $235,723 in grants to AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES?
- RASKOB FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $68,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FEDERATION OF PUERI CANTORES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 12 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