Missouri · Nonprofit
Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri
Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,833 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri does
Mission
To provide exceptional choral arts experiences, accesible to all individuals from beginning youth to professional musicians.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization organized an international choral tour to Vienna, providing choir members the opportunity to perform in a historic church setting. This program supported the mission by offering participants a unique artistic and educational experience, fostering musical growth, cultural exchange, and community engagement. The positive impact was reflected in the personal and artistic development of the choir members. Similar trips have been offered in the past and will continue as part of our commitment to exceptional choral arts experiences.
$42,572 spent$57,102 earned by the program29% of program spendingColumbia Chorale is the regions premier mixed-voiced community ensemble. Chartered in 1978, the Chorale strives to promote choral music of the highest artistic quality and stimulate a greater community understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of choral music. The membership, drawn from across central Missouri, consists of a broad spectrum of both professional and amateur musicians unified through a common appreciation for outstanding choral music. The ensemble presents two or more formal concerts per season with an emphasis on providing rich and varied programs that appeal to a wide cross-section of Missouri residents and visitors. Coumbia Chorale performed three concerts in their 2024-2025 season.
$36,883 spent$29,934 earned by the program25% of program spendingCAAMs newest extension, Prometheus, joins as the organizations permanent professional Artists-in-Residence. Under the direction of Artistic Director R. Paul Crabb and Assistant Director Emily Edgington Andrews, Prometheus fourteen singers hail from regions across the United States. Each of them leading professional lives as soloists and chamber musicians, their collected experience brings a special breadth and depth to the ensemble, lending Prometheus a unique versatility and intimacy. The ensemble will join CAAM once a year to perform on tour. Prometheus performed five concerts in the 2024-2025 season.
$28,560 spent$12,885 earned by the program20% of program spendingCAAMs youth choir extension, Columbia Youth Choirs, was established in 2013 to serve students in grades K-12 of any ability level, economic background, and cultural or religious affiliation. Its membership represents over 30 public, private, and homeschool programs in the region. The seven choirs offered ensure any interested singer an opportunity to receive high-quality vocal music education at an affordable price. Columbia Youth choirs performed four concerts in their 2024-2025 season.
$27,251 spent$16,219 earned by the program19% of program spendingColumbia Community Gospel Choir (CCGC) is a free choral ensemble open to anyone in the community. CCGC strives to provide a sense of fellowship and camaraderie through gospel music, coming together once a year to perform in the Unity Benefit Concert. CCGC began as a guest ensemble in CAAMs first Unity Concert in 2016, but proved to be so successful in its first year that it has officially joined CAAM as its newest choir. One concert was performed in 2024-2025 season.
$4,984 spent$499 earned by the program3% of program spendingColumbia Chamber Choir, a subset of Columbia Chorale, is an auditioned mixed vocal ensemble, established to support the organizations mission to promote high quality choral music to the region by performing repertoire more suitable for smaller numbers. Columbia Chamber Choir performed two concerts in their 2024-2025 Season.
$4,466 spent$3,316 earned by the program3% of program spendingPremier Vocal Artists
$754 spent$1,500 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $145,470.
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 2020 to 2021, from $24k to $44k (+86%).
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 16% · 2018 12% · 2019 16% · 2020 62% · 2021 77% · 2022 64% · 2023 24% · 2024 21% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri’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. 5 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.
Board chair
Kimberly Pierce
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $319 → $230.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri’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
Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 94% · 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
70% of Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri 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 Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri: 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 Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri?
- Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,833 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $8,833 in grants to Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 5 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