Massachusetts · Nonprofit
COLONIAL CHORUS INC
COLONIAL CHORUS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,087 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $72k
What Colonial Chorus Inc does
Mission
Performing Arts
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Theatrical production: "Rocky Horror Show". Seven performances. Attended by almost 400 audience members. Production involved about 40 people including actors, directors, musicians, light and sound people, set builders, costume designers, and publcity. This does not include royalties and rights paid the previous year.
$7,832 spent40% of program spendingTheatrical production: "Mousetrap". Six performances. Attended by over 330 audience members. Production involved about 20 people including actors, directors, light and sound people, set builders, costume designers, and publcity. This does not include royalties and rights paid the previous year.
$2,515 spent13% of program spendingTheatrical production: "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee". Six performances. Attend by over 330 audience members. Production involved about 40 people including actors, directors, musicians, light and sound people, set builders, costume designers, and publcity. This does not include royalties and rights paid the previous year, nor production expenses that were paid after the end of the fiscal year.
$1,460 spent7% of program spendingTheatrical production: "Little Women Christmas". Three performances. Attend by over 150 audience members. Production involved about 20 people including actors, directors, light and sound people, set builders, costume designers, and publcity. This does not include royalties and rights paid the previous year.
$947 spent5% of program spendingTheatrical production: "First Date". Six performances. Attend by over 200 audience members. Production involved about 40 people including actors, directors, light and sound people, set builders, costume designers, and publcity. These expenses were paid in this fiscal year for productions in previous year.
$985 spent5% of program spendingFuture Theatrical productions: The rights and royalties paid for three shows in the upcoming fiscal year. "The Pillowman", "Paint Night", and "Next to Normal" production rights paid in Fiscal Year 2026 for next year's shows totalled $5,919.
$5,919 spent30% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,658.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $74k to $67k (−9%).
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.
13% of COLONIAL CHORUS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $17 → $1k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 COLONIAL CHORUS INC’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
COLONIAL CHORUS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of COLONIAL CHORUS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87 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
COLONIAL CHORUS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 435 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like COLONIAL CHORUS INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 COLONIAL CHORUS INC: 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 COLONIAL CHORUS INC?
- COLONIAL CHORUS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,087 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLONIAL CHORUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,087 in grants to COLONIAL CHORUS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLONIAL CHORUS INC?
- EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLONIAL CHORUS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 2 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