Kentucky · Nonprofit
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,548 to it, the largest being LEXARTS INC ($17,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Chamber Music Festival of Lexingtoninc does
Mission
The organization operates a 10-day festival and year round concerts in Lexington, Ky. It is the mission of the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington to present innovative, accessible, and inclusive chamber music performances of the highest artistry in central Kentucky by using a mixture of world class and local musicians to foster a greater appreciation for the chamber music repertoire and regular community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Chamber Music Festival of Lexington is a 10 day annual celebration offering public performances and clinics, master classes and presentations to school children from middle school to secondary students. Our work reaches thousands of audience members and hundreds of students every year. Free public performances occur in high visibility, high access locations such as farmers markets, bookstores, and public libraries. The Festival's main concert stage are held at the Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center. Other venues included Equus Run Vinyard.
$64,087 spent64% of program spendingThe Lexington Chamber Orchestra is a year round program of the Chamber Music Festival. Performances for the public and for private audiences are offered throughout Central Kentucky.
$35,958 spent36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $100,045.
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 $49k to $28k (−44%).
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.
76% of CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC’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
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
57% of CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC'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. Of the $22k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC's revenue grew 50% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC: 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 CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC?
- CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,548 to it, the largest being LEXARTS INC ($17,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $51,548 in grants to CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC?
- LEXARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OF LEXINGTONINC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 6 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