Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC
BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,571 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($28,445). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Berkshire Lyric Theatre Inc does
Mission
Berkshire Lyric is a community of choruses where singers ages six to eighty explore a world of beauty through the choral arts. Founded in 1963 Berkshire Lyric continues to explore a wide variety of great music for chorus. We believe that the sung word is the language of the heart and has a unique power to transform both the singer and the listener.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Presented seven concerts with audiences ranging from 200 to 1,000 people culminating in our Masterworks concert at Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. Also held a free Summer Choral Camp for children. Tickets were free for under 18. Amount at right is total ticket sales
$44,785 spentof which $34,385 as grants73% of program spendingSold advertising spots in our annual program to benefit local businesses
$16,430 spent27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,215.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $8k to $48k (+500%).
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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Vladimir Zeleny
President of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $5k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC’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
BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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
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 BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 92% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
82% of BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE 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 $6k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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.
Organizations like BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC
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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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC?
- BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,571 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($28,445). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $34,571 in grants to BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC?
- BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $28,445 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2022–2025), 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