California · Nonprofit
CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS
CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,957 to it, the largest being Fremont Bank Foundation ($3,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $359k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $152k
What Cantabella Childrens Chorus does
Mission
The mission of Cantabella Children's Chorus is to develop music literacy, healthy vocal technique, and choral artistry through excellence in music education, exceptional choral productions, and collaborative cultural arts experiences, to enrich our diverse community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Music Classes: Cantabella has two 10-week semesters each year, training children in four major divisions: (1) CTC: Cantabella Training Choir classes are taught in the Kodály approach or equivalent for children K-5th grades. There are three levels of CTC classes: CTC-1, CTC-2, and CTC-3. (2) CC: The Children's Choir is composed of choristers in the 5th-8th grades. (3) CH: The Chamber Choir is composed of advanced SATB choristers in the 7th-12th grades. (4) HC: The Honors Choir is an auditioned treble choir for choristers in the 7th-12th grades. Cantabella served approximately 150 students for both semesters.
$114,773 spent$135,050 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe organization participated in two music festivals during the tax year: Cantabella Children's Chorus sang for Charlotte's Web at Hagemann Ranch, Livermore on April 28. A free public event with fair food, games and meeting Wilbur and his pals. In addition, the students participated in a tour of Ireland, June 23 - July 3, 2024. Cantabella performed multiple free concerts around the island in old world cathedrals
$205,291 spent$211,927 earned by the program64% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $320,064.
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 $103k to $290k (+183%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 11% · 2022 17% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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 narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $143.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS’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
CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 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
89% of CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457 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
CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS?
- CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,957 to it, the largest being Fremont Bank Foundation ($3,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $4,957 in grants to CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS?
- Fremont Bank Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANTABELLA CHILDRENS CHORUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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