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BLUE HILL BACH

BLUE HILL BACH (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,306 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($27,325). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$197k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$70k
Net assets
$215k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Blue Hill Bach does

Mission

The mission of Blue Hill Bach is to present historically informed performances, recordings, and educational programs that explore vocal and instrumental music of the baroque, as well as repertoire, that demonstrates the place of baroque music within the continuum of music history.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Blue Hill Bach presents various concerts and festivals during the year featuring bach and baroque music with orchestra and chorus.

    $98,755 spent$37,820 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $98,755.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($67k) Expenses 100 ($58k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2018 Revenue 108 ($73k) Expenses 124 ($72k) Net assets 105 ($22k)2019 Revenue 121 ($81k) Expenses 105 ($61k) Net assets 206 ($42k)2020 Revenue 131 ($89k) Expenses 70 ($40k) Net assets 440 ($91k)2021 Revenue 121 ($82k) Expenses 108 ($62k) Net assets 534 ($110k)2022 Revenue 111 ($75k) Expenses 144 ($83k) Net assets 494 ($101k)2023 Revenue 122 ($82k) Expenses 154 ($89k) Net assets 461 ($95k)2024 Revenue 291 ($197k) Expenses 194 ($112k) Net assets 872 ($179k)2025 Revenue 293 ($197k) Expenses 279 ($161k) Net assets 1047 ($215k)
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Revenue (293)Expenses (279)Net assets (1047)Peer revenue range

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 $95k to $179k (+89%).

$21k
$22k
$42k
$96k
$110k
$101k
$95k
$179k
$215k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

78% of BLUE HILL BACH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
$1k
’18
$21k
’19
$48k
’20
$19k
’21
−$8k
’22
−$7k
’23
$84k
’24
$36k
’25
16
months of
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.

20242025
Listed811
Joined·+3
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $100 → $16k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 HILL BACH’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 HILL BACH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 HILL BACH.

39%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 77% · 2021 72% · 2022 77% · 2023 35% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of BLUE HILL BACH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

51% of BLUE HILL BACH'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, 56% of it comes from Maine funders.

ME
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maine out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLUE HILL BACH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve15.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BLUE HILL BACH

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 23%Fundraising 15%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ME

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLUE HILL BACH?
BLUE HILL BACH (Maine) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,306 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($27,325). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BLUE HILL BACH have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $70,306 in grants to BLUE HILL BACH, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLUE HILL BACH?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $27,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLUE HILL BACH 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 8 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