Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHATTERBIRD
CHATTERBIRD (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,202 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Chatterbird does
Mission
Chatterbird's primary purpose is to create innovative chamber music experiences that educate and inspire diverse audiences while supporting musicians and composers through new music projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
2022/2023 season programming: Chatterbirds 2022/23 season included the presentation of two ticketed mainstage events, featuring collaborations with cellist joshua dent, spoken word artist tavius marshall, the vanderbilt curb center, and the blair school of music composition faculty. Additionally, Chatterbird presented four free collaborative community concerts in partnership with nashville chamber music series, make music nashville, and the university of tennessee contemporary music festival. Combined attendance at these events was 900+. Engagement with freely available previous season video content remained strong, with more than 10,000 impressions over the course of the fiscal year. Chatterbird also wrapped up a year-long residency featuring four musicians exploring and creating site-specific music in places of racial trauma across the south. Chatterbird's work in the 2022/23 season continued to receive positive critical response, including multiple critics' picks, reviews, and media mentions. The ensemble employed 45 artists over the course of the fiscal year.
$103,350 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,350.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $10k to $3k (−66%).
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.
94% of CHATTERBIRD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Carissa Stolting
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CHATTERBIRD’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
CHATTERBIRD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
83% 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 CHATTERBIRD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 44% · 2021 100% · 2022 41% · 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of CHATTERBIRD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
CHATTERBIRD draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHATTERBIRD has grown faster 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
Government funding CHATTERBIRD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 CHATTERBIRD
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 Tennessee
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHATTERBIRD: 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 CHATTERBIRD?
- CHATTERBIRD (Tennessee) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,202 to it, the largest being TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHATTERBIRD have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $155,202 in grants to CHATTERBIRD, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHATTERBIRD?
- TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHATTERBIRD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 12 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