Washington · Nonprofit
CHAMBER MUSIC MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD
CHAMBER MUSIC MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,249 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($22,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $203k
What Chamber Music Madness Dba Chamber Music Guild does
Mission
Chamber Music Madness Dba Chamber Music Guild is a nonprofit organization that provides educational and inspirational chamber music experiences for youth and adults in the pacific northwest. We foster life-long learning and an ever-expanding community of chamber music players.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Summer student festival: the 11th annual festival took place july 2025 in seattle, wa. This week-long intensive chamber music experience for string-instrument and piano students ages 13-24 offers a unique opportunity for participants to work with a professional string quartet. The festival features daily ensemble coaching, masterclasses, theater arts classes, and multiple performance opportunities. Our public benefit includes a coaches recital and a final student performance, both free and open to the public.the counterpoint club podcast: the podcast, all about chamber music, launched in july of 2020 as a response to covid pandemic school closures. Designed to appeal to a young audience, the podcast and its associated blog posts have greatly extended our ability to provide chamber music education to youth through the broad reach of virtual programing. Now with over 4,000 downloads, the podcast is free and available on all major platforms.
$24,539 spent27% of program spendingAdult chamber music weekend retreat: the 14th annual weekend retreat took place in september 2025 at the icicle creek center for the arts in leavenworth, wa. With itssetting in the scenic foothills of the cascade mountains, the retreat continues to be a popular and inspiring weekend of chamber music-making guided by professional coaches. Participants number 45-55 adults and 4 to 6 professional coaches each year. The coaches recital and final participant performance are free and open to the public.
$38,022 spent42% of program spendingHarmonic voyages: chamber music guild presented musical assemblies for several local elementary schools in spring 2025, featuring a professional string quartet who demonstrated their instruments and played selections of music from around the world. The goal of this pilot program, offered at no charge to schools, is to stimulate the interest of young students in choosing a musical instrument and beginning their musical journeys. Audiences for these presentations are 3th, 4th, and 5th grade students.
$12,398 spent14% of program spendingDiscovery workshops: these full-day workshops in chamber music exploration are offered semi-annually and attended by adults and older students. They include educational talks by our artistic director quartet several coached ensemble rehearsal sessions a sight-reading session, and a coaches performance which is free and open to the public. Average annual attendance for each workshop is 25-30 participants and 4 professional coaches. We expanded this program in 2025 to include additional half-day sessions focusing on specific music topics such as composers, musical styles, and performance techniques.
$15,705 spent17% of program spendingMasterworks concert series: our masterworks concert series presents the skyros quartet with performances of the most loved repertoire composed for the string quartet paired with pieces we believe audiences of all ages will come to love just as much once they get to know them. The goal is to share musical experiences with youth and adults and provide access to these experiences that might otherwise not be accessible to them for financial or geographical reasons. We are expanding this offering in 2026-2027 to king county venues to increase our reach, as well as offering tickets from $0(youth)-$10(adults).institute: the chamber music guild institute (cmgi) provides high-quality coaching, master classes, and performance opportunities for young musicians they would not be able to have in school or other community programs, helping them explore new repertoire, develop their personal musicality, and learn useful life skills like organization, time management, and working cordially with others. Led by the skyros quartet, a professional ensemble, the institute provides a unique curriculum that concentrates on musical growth, collaboration, and artistry. Students also have the opportunity…
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The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,664.
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 $84k to $127k (+52%).
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.
61% of CHAMBER MUSIC MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD’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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Justin Kurys
Exoficio- executive director
Board chair
Sharon Wong
President of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $6k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD’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 MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
64% of CHAMBER MUSIC MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD'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 $23k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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 MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHAMBER MUSIC MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
84%
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 MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD: 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 MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD?
- CHAMBER MUSIC MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,249 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($22,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAMBER MUSIC MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $63,249 in grants to CHAMBER MUSIC MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMBER MUSIC MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMBER MUSIC MADNESS DBA CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 4 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