Washington · Nonprofit
CHOIR OF THE SOUND
CHOIR OF THE SOUND (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,280 to it, the largest being BEEKS FAMILY LEGACY FOUNDATION ($52,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $282k
What Choir of the Sound does
Mission
The choirs mission is to enrich the lives of our community and our membership by sharing exceptional performances comprrised of diverse musical styles, blending our many talents to create a more perfect and pleasing musical whole
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Concert production by far our largest service is the production of our concerts and stage shows. The majority of our annual budget does dieectly to ceatling exceptional muscially divers concers always aiming for a more pleasing experiance for our audiences.durning 2024-2025 fiscal year we produced four distinct shows.our holiday 2024 abd sorubg 2025 showsfollowed the usual process of our 90+ memebership perfoming with additional muscial contractors to create 4 pleasingperformances. Our attendance reached nearly 1500 for these 2 hsows ( 2 performances each). During february 2025 we collaborated with two groups. Thaila symphony and nw edvard greig society to stage one performance of the norwegian opera. Peer gynt with attendance of 487. Our april 2025 show took place a the everett performing arts centter with next stage choir, a group from great britian. We perfomed selctions from various musical for 400 attendees. Fy2024-2025 was every busy but we accomplished new and unique experiences for our memeber and our audiences
$91,858 spent$51,881 earned by the program83% of program spendingMembership support technolgy, rehearsals and activities. To protect the health of our 90+ members and staff, we continied to use a rehearsal venue with an advanced system for improve air quaility, with strong technical infrasturcture to support remote rehearsal attendance and enough swuare footage to increase personal spacing during our weekly 3 hour rehearsals. We averaged 10 rehearsals per quarter to prepare each of our 4 concerts this year. Vaccinations for both flu and covid were still encouraged witht he continued attendance policy for ill member to jion rehearsal via zoom. Increased ecpenditures for business queality zoom account to providel inks and recodings for each rehearsal. We used professionals to improve the quaility for home rehearsals. We are also re introducion membership activities to strenghen continued membership.finally we invested in recording technology hiring professionals to record and stream each concert online providing remote viewing options for audience member we were unable to attend our live performances. We provided nealy 200 streaming links to our at home audience for family and friends
$9,436 spent$5,318 earned by the program9% of program spendingEducation for future musicians Choir of the Sound ran a week long summer camp with indorr and out door activities for 21 musical children. Signle camp corriculum covered sight reaching percussion music theory and vocal performances. A new drum set was purcahsed to facilitate teaching children varied percussion techniques. Camp week ended with a free live perfomance by the children for approximately 15 of their familiies and friends. Looking towards a brighter future for our community. Choif of the sound also awarded schoarships to 2 gifted high school students.
$9,487 spent$6,175 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $110,781.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $199k to $261k (+31%).
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: 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of CHOIR OF THE SOUND’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. 0 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Eric Gottschalk
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $15k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CHOIR OF THE SOUND’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
CHOIR OF THE SOUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 CHOIR OF THE SOUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 93% · 2022 94% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHOIR OF THE SOUND's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k 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
CHOIR OF THE SOUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 CHOIR OF THE SOUND
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 CHOIR OF THE SOUND: 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 CHOIR OF THE SOUND?
- CHOIR OF THE SOUND (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,280 to it, the largest being BEEKS FAMILY LEGACY FOUNDATION ($52,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHOIR OF THE SOUND have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $107,280 in grants to CHOIR OF THE SOUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHOIR OF THE SOUND?
- BEEKS FAMILY LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $52,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHOIR OF THE SOUND 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 2019–2025), 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