Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC
BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,526 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($316,300). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $387k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $351k
- Net assets
- $-18791
What Blue Heron Renaissance Choir Inc does
Mission
The corporation operates a professional vocal ensemble known as blue heron. The ensemble's mission is to increase appreciation for renaissance music among the public and it's audience's understanding of the music through performances on it's own cambridge-based series, on touring engagements, educational programs and workshops.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's primary activity is operating the professional vocal ensemble "blue heron" as a means of educating the public about 15th and 16th century english and european sacred and secular music and providing cultural enrichment to the general public. The organization reaches local, national, and international audiences through a cambridge-based subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, radio broadcasts, and its online presence. The organization's educational programming includes lectures, workshops, symposia, collaborations with art galleries around exhibitions, and residencies in academic and community institutions.
$332,577 spent$126,001 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $332,577.
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 2023 to 2024, from $228k to $78k (−66%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2021 8% · 2022 2% · 2023 11% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC’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. 7 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $14k → $38k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR 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
BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
97% 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 BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 68% · 2020 89% · 2021 82% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% — 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
90% of BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR 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 $34k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $316k 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
BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC's revenue grew 24% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $118k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$118k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC: 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 BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC?
- BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,526 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($316,300). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $350,526 in grants to BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $316,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE HERON RENAISSANCE CHOIR 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 2017–2025), 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