Colorado · Nonprofit
BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES
BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,574 to it, the largest being HARRY L WILLETT FOUNDATION C O BOYD RYAN ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Bennie L Williams Spiritual Voices does
Mission
The united states has long been a leader and innovator in music for the entire world. The negro spirituals is one of many genres of music that was created in our country. Although originating from some of the ugliest times in our nation's history, this beautiful music showcases the courage and hope for all americans to enjoy. The organization's purpose is to preserve this through performance and education.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Traditionally multiple concerts are held benefitting over one thousand people per year through performance and associated educational dialogue at multiple locations. In 2020 two online performances were held as Bennie L Williams Spiritual Voices was adversely affected by the covid-19 outbreak and was unable to perform any in person concerts during the year.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
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 $15k to $43k (+188%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $16.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES’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
BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
37% 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 BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 60% · 2019 71% · 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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In Colorado
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES?
- BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,574 to it, the largest being HARRY L WILLETT FOUNDATION C O BOYD RYAN ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $79,574 in grants to BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES?
- HARRY L WILLETT FOUNDATION C O BOYD RYAN is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENNIE L WILLIAMS SPIRITUAL VOICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 4 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