Maine · Nonprofit
BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC
BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC (Maine) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,332,427 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($982,600). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Bay Chamber Concerts Inc does
Mission
Bay chamber concerts, inc. Is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform lives through high-quality programs, music education and community outreach. This mission is achieved by 1. Continuing its 50-year tradition of presenting chamber music in the state of maine 2. Introducing audiences to excellence in the performing arts by delivering a diversity of events at a variety of venues 3. Offering varied and participatory music education for all ages and abilities regardless of financial need through its community music school 4. Expanding outreach programs and collaborating with other organizations 5. Providing a sound organizational structure, prudent financial management, and an endowment sufficient to accomplish its goals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer and winter series chamber music concerts at hammer hall, camden, me and other venues in surrounding communities.
$457,028 spent$157,428 earned by the program39% of program spendingEducational programs for youth and adults, including private instruction, designed to instill an appreciation of music in both artists and the public and presentation of awards and prizes to qualified student musicians.
$713,079 spent$400,093 earned by the program61% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,170,107.
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 $3.4M to $7.3M (+117%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $52k → $911k.
14 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC 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
82% 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 BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 67% · 2019 38% · 2020 29% · 2021 24% · 2022 59% · 2023 44% — 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
63% of BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
81% of BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC'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 $640k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS 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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC?
- BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC (Maine) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,332,427 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($982,600). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,332,427 in grants to BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC?
- THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $982,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 35 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