Texas · Nonprofit
CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON
CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,123 to it, the largest being RAMESH AND RADHIKA HARIHARAN FOUNDATION ($16,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $158k
What Classical Arts Society of Houston does
Mission
Formed in 1993, the Classical Arts Society of Houston is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and maintaining the rich heritage of the classical performing arts of India. In particular, the organization presents South Indian classical music (also called Carnatic music) typically up to 8 concerts by well-known visiting and diaspora artists from India, through the year. A music festival is held each year to commemorate a 18th century music composer named Sri Tyagaraja. Besides performing arts, educational talks, symposia and lecture demonstrations are also offered through the year by experts in the field. The programs are often targeted towards many youngsters in the Houston area students of Carnatic music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Jan 19, 2025 - Tyagaraja Aradhana and Music Festival Attended by over 150 children and 200 adults Held at the Meenakshi Temple Auditorium, Pearland,TX
$2,121 spent5% of program spendingMarch 23, 2025 - Dikshithar 250 Presented by Dr. Kanniks Kannikeshwaran Attended by 150 connoisseurs Event held at the Eternal Gandhi Museum Houston
$4,359 spent10% of program spendingMarch 30, 2025 - Kaushiki Chakraborthi Concert held at The Stafford Civic Center, Stafford, TX Attended by 150 people
$5,317 spent12% of program spendingApril 25, 2025 - RanjanI Gayathri Vocal Concert Held at The Meenakshi Temple Auditorium, Pearland, TX. Attended by 350 connoiseurs
$11,391 spent26% of program spendingJune 6, 2025 - Rahul Vellal vocal concert at The Meenakshi Temple Auditorium, Pearland, TX. Attended by over 225
$7,700 spent18% of program spendingOct 10, 2025 - Akkarai Sisters Violin Duet Concert held at The MATCH, Houston, TX Attended by over 300
$5,952 spent14% of program spendingNov 14, 2025 - Vijay Siva vocal concert at the MATCH, Houston, TX attended around 200
$5,836 spent13% of program spendingCo-Sponsorship of HYMA (Houston Youth Music Association),
$1,317 spent3% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,993.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $130k to $158k (+21%).
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.
99% of CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
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
Board chair
Nalini Mukhopadyay
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $7k.
1 of 12 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 CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON’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
CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2019 56% · 2020 49% · 2021 69% · 2022 83% · 2023 81% — 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
43% of CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON'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
96% of CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52 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.
Against its field
CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON?
- CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,123 to it, the largest being RAMESH AND RADHIKA HARIHARAN FOUNDATION ($16,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $47,123 in grants to CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON?
- RAMESH AND RADHIKA HARIHARAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLASSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF HOUSTON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2025), 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