Oregon · Nonprofit
CAPPELLA ROMANA
CAPPELLA ROMANA (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,209,628 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($395,350). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $983k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $296k
What Cappella Romana does
Mission
Musical performances for the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As one of the leading professional chamber choirs in north america both by budget and activity level, Cappella Romana aims to be the preeminent global proponent of early and contemporary vocal music inspired by byzantium, the slavic commonwealth, and their interactions with western traditions. Founded by music director alexander lingas in 1991, its highly focused programs offer a glimpse of the transcendent in vocal art, made possible by deep, original musicological and ethnographical research. Reaching more audiences each year and acclaimed recently in gramophone magazine ("a sound world of unique beauty"), the portland, oregon based ensemble presents a west coast concert series (portland and seattle) as its main program offering. Collaborations with peers, such as portland art museum, portland baroque orchestra, kingdom sound gospel choir, and 45th parallel universe, reach broad audiences, as do its regional, national, and international tours. Cappella's recent international tours include performances in romania and national tours include performances in washington (dc), boston, new orleans, houston, new york, los angeles, and seattle. Cappella records (Cappella Romana's own…
$814,463 spent$290,467 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $814,463.
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 2019 to 2020, from $187k to $416k (+122%).
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 3% · 2019 9% · 2020 5% · 2021 45% · 2022 30% · 2023 24% · 2024 4% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of CAPPELLA ROMANA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $22k → $304k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 CAPPELLA ROMANA’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
CAPPELLA ROMANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 CAPPELLA ROMANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 48% · 2019 66% · 2020 27% · 2021 45% · 2022 33% · 2023 25% — 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
53% of CAPPELLA ROMANA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
92% of CAPPELLA ROMANA's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $355k 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
CAPPELLA ROMANA's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CAPPELLA ROMANA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $158k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$90k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$68k
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 CAPPELLA ROMANA
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% 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 CAPPELLA ROMANA: 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 CAPPELLA ROMANA?
- CAPPELLA ROMANA (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,209,628 to it, the largest being Regional Arts & Culture Council ($395,350). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPPELLA ROMANA have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,209,628 in grants to CAPPELLA ROMANA, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPPELLA ROMANA?
- Regional Arts & Culture Council is the largest funder on record, with $395,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPPELLA ROMANA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 23 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