Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC
BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,140,141 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,952,577). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Boston Children's Chorus Inc does
Mission
Boston children's chorus harnesses the power of music to connect our city's diverse communities, cultivate empathy, and inspire social inquiry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bcc accomplishments (2024-2025 season) in the 2024-2025 season, people, get ready, boston children's chorus (bcc) served more than 2,900 young people through performances, school partnerships, rehearsals, and community programs across greater boston. Bcc continued to use the power of music to unite diverse communities, amplify youth voices, and create transformative artistic experiences. This season's theme, people, get ready, explored the ways music inspires social change, uplifts community voices, and empowers young artists to see themselves as leaders in building a more just world. Programs highlighted resilience, protest, and civic engagement, and featured new commissions that deepened the repertoire for youth voices. Across the year, bcc presented approximately 41 performances in venues from neighborhood stages to symphony hall. Mlk tribute concert - bcc's 22nd annual dr. Martin luther king, jr. Tribute concert, road to freedom, was a sold-out performance at symphony hall attended by nearly 2,000 audience members. The program highlighted themes of liberation and resilience through repertoire spanning spirituals, contemporary works, and protest songs. Guest artist anastasia…
$1,521,636 spentof which $190,976 as grants$812,370 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,521,636.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $2.9M (+130%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 17% · 2022 29% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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 19 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $762k → $1.1M.
7 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 funders by total. 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
BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 28% · 2019 35% · 2020 46% · 2021 33% · 2022 16% · 2023 27% — 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
46% of BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
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 BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS 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 $3.5M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M 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
BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $646k on record — $45k federal, $601k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$601k
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 BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS 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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC?
- BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,140,141 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,952,577). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $7,140,141 in grants to BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,952,577 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 68 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