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CAPITAL HEARINGS

CAPITAL HEARINGS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($40). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$64k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$40
Net assets
$157k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Capital Hearings does

Mission

The mission of The Capital Hearings is to engage our community through innovative performances, rooted in a shared commitment to artistic excellence, that connect disparate styles of vocal music.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Fall Concert. Our 2025 Fall Concert featured music from a variety of genres, time periods, languages, and cultural traditions, connected by a theme that illuminated common threads in seemingly disparate musical styles.

    $15,514 spent
    55% of program spending
  2. Other public performances. Our other 2025 public performances included holiday and other concerts.

    $9,244 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. Young Composer Competition. In 2025, our 11th Annual Young Composers Competition offered local audiences the world premiere of a piece written by a top rising composer in the choral field.

    $3,532 spent
    12% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,290.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($80k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 100 ($107k)2024 Revenue 92 ($73k) Expenses 87 ($49k) Net assets 124 ($133k)2025 Revenue 80 ($64k) Expenses 86 ($49k) Net assets 146 ($157k)
202320242025
Revenue (80)Expenses (86)Net assets (146)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 $107k to $133k (+24%).

$107k
$133k
$157k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

88% of CAPITAL HEARINGS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’23
$24k
’24
$15k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $14 → $16.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CAPITAL HEARINGS’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.

Where its funders are

100% of CAPITAL HEARINGS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAPITAL HEARINGS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

94%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPITAL HEARINGS: 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 CAPITAL HEARINGS?
CAPITAL HEARINGS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($40). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CAPITAL HEARINGS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40 in grants to CAPITAL HEARINGS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAPITAL HEARINGS?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAPITAL HEARINGS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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