Washington · Nonprofit
B H MUSIC CENTER
B H MUSIC CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,502,500 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $53M
What B H Music Center does
Mission
To maintain a concert hall consisting of three auditoriums and gallery space for the seattle symphony orchestra and the region's performing arts and community groups.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Maintained a facility, benaroya hall, as a concert hall for the seattle symphony orchestra and as a venue for musical performances, public meetings and events by other organizations including other artistic and community groups.
$7,302,339 spentof which $1,000,000 as grants$2,654,031 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,302,339.
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 2021 to 2022, from $59M to $54M (−8%).
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 12% · 2021 85% · 2022 33% · 2023 24% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of B H MUSIC CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Krishna Thiagarajan
President & CEO
Board chair
Leslie Jackson Chihuly
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money B H MUSIC CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of B H MUSIC CENTER’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
B H MUSIC CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
98% of B H MUSIC CENTER's grant income comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $230k 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
B H MUSIC CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like B H MUSIC CENTER
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Seattle Symphony Orchestra · exempt
- Seattle Symphony Foundation · exempt
- Charitable Lead Annuity Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for B H MUSIC CENTER: 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 B H MUSIC CENTER?
- B H MUSIC CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,502,500 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does B H MUSIC CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,502,500 in grants to B H MUSIC CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of B H MUSIC CENTER?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like B H MUSIC CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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