California · Nonprofit
CANTARE CON VIVO
CANTARE CON VIVO (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,361,989 to it, the largest being CRESCENT PORTER HALE FOUNDATION ($264,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $310k
What Cantare Con Vivo does
Mission
Through its work with adult choirs, youth choirs and 2,500 inner city youth, Cantare is committed to advancing social change and cultural equity by building bridges where there is division.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cantare Con Vivo To Sing With Life is a non profit 501 c3 choral music organization founded in 1987 that engages participants from ages 4 to 85 primarily from Alameda to Contra Costa counties. Its 100 voice symphonic Chorale offers concert programs that are affordable and accessible. Its audition-free summer adult choir attracts over 100 singers. Cantares adult choirs have performed over 175 different concert programs and presented more than 1,500 compositions, including numerous major choral/orchestral works. Adult choir singers are not paid and commit to weekly rehearsals, performances and personal expenses as they relate to the choir. Many volunteer in numerous capacities, including on the Board of Directors and Committees, and in concert set-up, ushering, ticket collecting, and with the childrens choir programs as rehearsal assistants and serving snacks and meals at childrens concerts
$236,957 spent$115,489 earned by the program29% of program spendingCantare partners with Oakland Public Schools offering tuition-free choir music education in 82 classrooms during the school day to K-5 students, reaching approximately 2,500 students each year. Students learn diverse folk songs from around the world while building fundamental music skills through a sequential curriculum based on the National Standards for Visual and Performing Arts. Special units are also included, presenting the Music of U.S history and California history in specialized sessions that pair with the schools language arts and history lessons. The highly skilled teaching artists work closely with school staff to provide the higest quality music education to every child. Cantares Nova and Aurora ensembles are comprised of 85 outstanding singers from its elementary choir programs, bringing together 6th-12th graders from across Oakland. Nova and Aurora offer students the opportunity to take on more challenging music and part-singing and participate in choral festivals and performance tours, as well as performing with Cantares adult Chorale.
$583,155 spent$439,419 earned by the program71% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $820,112.
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 2022 to 2023, from $287k to $387k (+35%).
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 10% · 2018 11% · 2019 15% · 2021 34% · 2022 28% · 2023 20% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of CANTARE CON VIVO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Tracy Grant
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $60k → $213k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 CANTARE CON VIVO’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
CANTARE CON VIVO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
31% 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 CANTARE CON VIVO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 42% · 2019 45% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 24% · 2023 19% — 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
58% of CANTARE CON VIVO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
95% of CANTARE CON VIVO's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $405k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CANTARE CON VIVO 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 CANTARE CON VIVO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $265k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$265k
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 CANTARE CON VIVO
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CANTARE CON VIVO: 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 CANTARE CON VIVO?
- CANTARE CON VIVO (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,361,989 to it, the largest being CRESCENT PORTER HALE FOUNDATION ($264,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANTARE CON VIVO have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,361,989 in grants to CANTARE CON VIVO, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANTARE CON VIVO?
- CRESCENT PORTER HALE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $264,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANTARE CON VIVO 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 24 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