California · Nonprofit
BAY CHORAL GUILD
BAY CHORAL GUILD (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,125 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($199,950). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $249k
- Net assets
- $177k
What Bay Choral Guild does
Mission
Choral music education and performance
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide choral music performances for the education, enjoyment and inspiration of our adult amateur singers and our audiences. In our 2024-2025 (46th) concert season, we offered a total of six live performances. The concerts occurred in December 2024, March 2025, and June 2025; all three programs were presented at venues in Campbell and Palo Alto. There were a total of 192 attendees for our December concerts, 211 for our March concerts, and 115 for our June concerts (a season total audience of 518). In addition, 43 choristers participated in our weekly rehearsals and some or all of our six concerts.
$127,125 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $127,125.
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 $189k to $177k (−7%).
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 BAY CHORAL GUILD’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. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $20k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 CHORAL GUILD’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
BAY CHORAL GUILD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 CHORAL GUILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 58% · 2020 59% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — diversifying over time.
“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
99% of BAY CHORAL GUILD'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 CHORAL GUILD has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BAY CHORAL GUILD
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.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAY CHORAL GUILD: 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 BAY CHORAL GUILD?
- BAY CHORAL GUILD (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,125 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($199,950). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BAY CHORAL GUILD have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $249,125 in grants to BAY CHORAL GUILD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAY CHORAL GUILD?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $199,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAY CHORAL GUILD 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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