California · Nonprofit
Chorale Bel Canto
Chorale Bel Canto (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,421 to it, the largest being BCM Foundation ($118,105). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $180k
- Net assets
- $142k
What Chorale Bel Canto does
Mission
Provide choral and orchestral concert music for over 1,000 attendees per season
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide choral and orchestral concert music for >1000 attendees per season.
$46,980 spentof which $46,980 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,980.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $131k to $113k (−13%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Karen Bourgaize
Exec Director
Board chair
Amy Boteilho
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $36k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Chorale Bel Canto’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
Chorale Bel Canto leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 50% · 2019 50% · 2020 52% · 2021 79% · 2022 82% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Chorale Bel Canto's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $566 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like Chorale Bel Canto
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 Chorale Bel Canto: 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 Chorale Bel Canto?
- Chorale Bel Canto (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,421 to it, the largest being BCM Foundation ($118,105). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chorale Bel Canto have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $180,421 in grants to Chorale Bel Canto, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chorale Bel Canto?
- BCM Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $118,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chorale Bel Canto find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2025), 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