Nevada · Nonprofit
CLASSICAL TAHOE
CLASSICAL TAHOE (Nevada) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,390,580 to it, the largest being CAROL FRANC BUCK FOUNDATION ($1,325,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Classical Tahoe does
Mission
Classical Tahoe's mission is to present world-class performances, nurture community partnerships, and provide educational programs that inspire, connect, and transform lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The successful series of classical music presentations including mainstage, chamber, and educational performances.
$1,274,305 spent$297,193 earned by the program75% of program spendingLaunched a new initiative with the school of music, university of nevada, reno called chamber connections. Fifteen unr music students had a three day residency with ct musicians leading up to a side by side performance.
$8,041 spent0% of program spendingLaunched a new partnership with the boys and girls club of north lake tahoe called music, movement and literature. Twenty plus, four to seven year olds, got to experience daily music activities focused on music, moving to music, and storytelling such as peter and the wolf.
$14,875 spent1% of program spendingVarious interim concerts and educational opportunities for the public.
$410,537 spent$174,306 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,707,758.
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 2024 to 2025, from $529k to $1.1M (+117%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of CLASSICAL TAHOE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
David Pratt
Executive director
Board chair
Rafael Pastor
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $354k → $870k.
16 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 TAHOE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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 TAHOE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 TAHOE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 43% · 2019 34% · 2020 34% · 2021 32% · 2022 21% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
63% of CLASSICAL TAHOE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
52% of CLASSICAL TAHOE'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 $3.0M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
CLASSICAL TAHOE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CLASSICAL TAHOE
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 Nevada
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
62%
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 CLASSICAL TAHOE: 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 CLASSICAL TAHOE?
- CLASSICAL TAHOE (Nevada) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,390,580 to it, the largest being CAROL FRANC BUCK FOUNDATION ($1,325,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLASSICAL TAHOE have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $6,390,580 in grants to CLASSICAL TAHOE, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLASSICAL TAHOE?
- CAROL FRANC BUCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLASSICAL TAHOE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing