Missouri · Nonprofit
AMERICAN KANTOREI
AMERICAN KANTOREI (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $61k
What American Kantorei does
Mission
To provide free public performances of Bach and like composers. Our performances provide cultural enrichment and education of the arts to the general community. In addition, our performance programs provide translations of the text and interpretations of the thematic content. This provides an educational opportunity for those in attendance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
February 2, 2025- Performed a Candlemas Choral Vespers at Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus in St. Louis Organ Prelude- Bach BWV 616 Performed with BWV 125 Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin (With Peace and Joy I go hence) with singers and instrumentalists Performed a Carol by Maurice Boyer Performed a Chorale Motet by Kile Smith - How lovely shines the Morning Star Performed the Bach Magnificat in D Attendance was about 350 people and was free of charge June 1, 2025 - Performed Bach BWV Chris Lag in Todes Banden (Christ Lay in Death's Strong Bands) and a Choral Hymn by Hugo Distler- Now Give Thanks and Give Honor, both with singers and instrumentalists at Holy Cross Lutheran Church. Attendance of about 210 October 1, 2025 - Performed Bach BWV 38 (Out of deep distress, I cry to You) and Bach Mass in G minor at Saint Paul's Lutheran Church Attendance of about 150 (free to public)
$40,350 spentof which $69,646 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,350.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $25k to $61k (+147%).
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.
95% of AMERICAN KANTOREI’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Andrew Ruben
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 KANTOREI’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 KANTOREI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
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 AMERICAN KANTOREI.
“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
94% of AMERICAN KANTOREI's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 KANTOREI runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN KANTOREI
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 AMERICAN KANTOREI: 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 AMERICAN KANTOREI?
- AMERICAN KANTOREI (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN KANTOREI have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,000 in grants to AMERICAN KANTOREI, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN KANTOREI?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN KANTOREI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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