Oklahoma · Nonprofit
Canterbury Voices Inc
Canterbury Voices Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,268,990 to it, the largest being ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ($563,471). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $873k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $188k
What Canterbury Voices Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to transform lives, educate the future and inspire communities through great choral music. Canterbury's vision is to continually offer artistic and educational experiences of the highest quality each year to the broadest and most diverse audience possible in the central oklahoma region.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Concerts-since 1969, canterbury voices is a 165-member volunteer adult chorus, performing three concerts per year in oklahoma citys civic center music hall. Often accompanied by the oklahoma city philharmonic canterbuys goal is to present innovative, artistic and diverse choral music to a broad audience while builing community partnerships. The chorus often travels internationally. Canterbury chamber voices is a smaller ensemble of 36 adult singers from within the larger chorus. Chamber voices performs their own feature concert, structured as a fundraising event with an elevated ticket price including beverages and food. They also perform in the community for private events, corporate events, & parties.
$372,710 spent$357,331 earned by the program39% of program spendingEducation-canterbury youth voices (cyv) is canterburys choral music education program, serving nearly 200 students in grades 2-12 annually cyv is curricular and performance based, performing their own feature concerts and alongside canterburys adult chorus at the civic center music hall. Cyv is tuition based at an affordable price and offers need-based scholarships funded by allied arts. In 2021, more than 100 singers performed in hawaii at the 80th anniversary of pearl harbor commemoration ceremonies.
$182,290 spent$130,596 earned by the program19% of program spendingMember services-member services is a pass-through account to provide convenience services to its members. Examples include: 1)singers purchase concert attire through canterbury voices. Canterbury places one large order for all singers at a discount, and the singers reimburse canterbury. 2)canterbury purchases poinsettias to decorate civic center stage at christmas. Singers can purchase any number (at cost) to take home after concert. 3)if canterbury sings at a thunder basketball game, singers must purchase game tickets to participate. Canterbury must buy the block of seats, and the singers pay canterbury for the tickets.
$389,836 spent$385,561 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $944,836.
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 2021 to 2022, from $986k to $220k (−78%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Canterbury Voices Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% 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
Pamela Mowry
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $35k → $212k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Canterbury Voices 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
Canterbury Voices Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 Canterbury Voices Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 54% · 2019 63% · 2020 45% · 2021 52% · 2022 41% · 2023 31% — 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 Canterbury Voices Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of Canterbury Voices Inc's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k 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
Canterbury Voices Inc's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Canterbury Voices Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
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 Canterbury Voices 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 Oklahoma
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
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 Canterbury Voices 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 Canterbury Voices Inc?
- Canterbury Voices Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,268,990 to it, the largest being ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ($563,471). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Canterbury Voices Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,268,990 in grants to Canterbury Voices Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Canterbury Voices Inc?
- ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $563,471 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Canterbury Voices Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing