Texas · Nonprofit
CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC
CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,770 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($257,328). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $360k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $514k
- Net assets
- $199k
What Chamber Music Houston Inc does
Mission
To present superb chamber music to a broad audience for their enjoyment, education and cultural enrichment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The full 2024-2025 season of ten concerts was successfully held in stude concert hall at the brockman music and performing arts center on rice university campus. More than 3,200 people attended the concerts, and 30% were given complimentary tickets, including 400 students. Of the 14 outreach events during the year, six were concert performances featuring local professional musicians and student ensembles in the community and schools. Cmh also sponsored a youth quartet to educate children and at-risk youth through their music. Six masterclasses were presented and two free digital perfomances were featured in the cmh@home online concert series, reaching 7,000 people
$359,866 spentof which $61,515 as grants$148,006 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $359,866.
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 2017 to 2018, from $994k to $798k (−20%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 15% · 2021 18% · 2022 18% · 2023 6% · 2024 6% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON 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. 7 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 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $50k → $21k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $141k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Chamber Music Houston Endowment). These are real filings, and they are not money CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON 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
CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 HOUSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 69% · 2019 85% · 2020 53% · 2021 54% · 2022 47% · 2023 72% — 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
75% of CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
98% of CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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 HOUSTON INC's revenue fell 39% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chamber Music Houston Endowment · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC?
- CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,770 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($257,328). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $513,770 in grants to CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC?
- Houston Arts Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $257,328 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMBER MUSIC HOUSTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 13 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