Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CHORUS AMERICA
CHORUS AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,109,236 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($4,000,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Chorus America does
Mission
Chorus America strengthens singing communities with the advocacy, connections, and resources they need to be a vital part of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership and publications - Chorus America supports and serves choruses and choral leaders with training, peer networking, and access to resources so that choruses are better able to contribute to their communities. Chorus America's approximately 6,000 members include choral organizations, conductors, administrators, board members, and singers, primarily located in the united states and canada. Chorus America publishes articles and resources for the choral field through its website, e-newsletters, and the member magazine the voice, as well as research including the chorus operations survey and the chorus impact study report. Membership includes access to a secure online community whose almost 5,000 members can connect directly with each other to share expertise and collaborate.
$518,567 spent26% of program spendingProjects - Chorus America's projects provide hands-on, collaborative professional development for members in both management and artistic roles. In june 2025, Chorus America held an annual conference in st. Louis, mo, gathering 300 attendees for 3 days of networking, learning from over 25 speakers, and watching local choirs perform. At that conference and continuing virtually until august 13th, Chorus America launched the choral executive leadership academy. 5 expert faculty worked with a cohort of 9 leaders to amplify their administrative leadership skills. See schedule o for additional program.Chorus America offered the choral-orchestral conducting academy july 7-13 in fullerton, ca, for choral conductors looking to expand their skills conducting orchestra. 24 participants participated in webinars, conducting workshops, private lessons, and networking led by a 5-member faculty. Chorus America also gathered an affinity group of executive directors of their largest budget choruses, which doubled in size from 30 to 60 participants, for virtual professional development in january 2025 and in-person at conference in june 2025.
$939,476 spent48% of program spendingMusic education partnership grant program - Chorus America's music education partnership grants are designed to support collaborations between community organizations dedicated to choral singing and schools serving early childhood-12th grade. 23 partners located across the program's four regions british columbia/northwest u.s., central appalachia, southwest u.s., and upper midwest were supported with grants ranging from $20,000-25,000 during the 2024-25 school year. Grant partners also participated in online peer learning and attended Chorus America's annual conference.related to this program, the reported deficit reflects timing differences from a multi-year grant recognized prior to the current reporting year, with expenses continuing through august 2026.
$509,500 spentof which $509,500 as grants26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,967,543.
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 $1.3M to $3.7M (+172%).
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 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 13% · 2021 9% · 2022 11% · 2023 4% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of CHORUS AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Anton Armstrong
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $224k → $1.6M.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 CHORUS AMERICA’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
CHORUS AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 CHORUS AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 63% · 2019 78% · 2020 44% · 2021 81% · 2022 74% · 2023 77% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of CHORUS AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
CHORUS AMERICA draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CHORUS AMERICA's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CHORUS AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $905k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$905k
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 CHORUS AMERICA
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, D.C.
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
53%
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 CHORUS AMERICA: 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 CHORUS AMERICA?
- CHORUS AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,109,236 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($4,000,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHORUS AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $7,109,236 in grants to CHORUS AMERICA, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHORUS AMERICA?
- MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHORUS AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 23 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