Washington · Nonprofit
Columbia Choirs Association
Columbia Choirs Association (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,680 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($47,256). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $640k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $102k
What Columbia Choirs Association does
Mission
To bring together people of all ages and backgrounds to learn through music and experience the joy of choral singing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Choirs: Community choirs are the primary focus of the organization providing music instruction to singers aged four through adult. Rehearsals allow our members to improve and hone their skills to become better musicians and singer, as well as to learn music in preparation for concerts, performances on tour, community outreach concerts, and other musical events in which we participate. Rehearsals teach the singers basic music skills - how to read music, music theory and sight-reading - and help the singers improve vocally as an individual, as well as a choir member.
$293,442 spentof which $25,024 as grants$302,743 earned by the program72% of program spendingTour: Our youth choirs participated in a tour to Portland including an exchange with a Portland based youth choir. One of our adult choirs also toured to Portland including an exchange and a performance with a local university choir, as well as a workshop with the composer of a piece they performed jointly. The other adult choir toured to Vancouver including a performance with a local community choir and workshop with a Vouncouver-based conductor.
$65,462 spentof which $1,318 as grants$86,517 earned by the program16% of program spendingConcerts: We held three concerts in December and two concerts in June as part of our regular concert series. We also held a concert at the conclusion of our Guest Artist Residency week with Arreon Harley-Emerson and held a collaborative concert with visiting choir Gondwana Chorale from Australia.
$15,652 spent$26,998 earned by the program4% of program spendingSummer Camps: We ran a summer music day camp for children age 5-10 to sing and continue developing their music skills. We also ran an overnight music camp for youth age 11-18 with intensive rehearsal time, workshops with clinicians and guest artists and other fun recreation activities.Enrichment Choir Program: In partnership with local PTSAs, we continued an enrichment choir program in local elementary schools that do not have choir opportunities in those schools.
$35,413 spentof which $1,900 as grants$43,745 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $409,969.
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 2020 to 2021, from $100k to $148k (+49%).
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: 2021 22% · 2022 30% · 2023 13% · 2024 2% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of Columbia Choirs Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Lars Myren
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $209 → $16k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Columbia Choirs Association’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
Columbia Choirs Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 Columbia Choirs Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 49% · 2022 100% · 2023 61% — 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
74% of Columbia Choirs Association'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 $27k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Columbia Choirs Association has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Columbia Choirs Association
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Columbia Choirs Association: 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 Columbia Choirs Association?
- Columbia Choirs Association (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,680 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($47,256). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Columbia Choirs Association have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $101,680 in grants to Columbia Choirs Association, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Columbia Choirs Association?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $47,256 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Columbia Choirs Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 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