Texas · Nonprofit
CONSPIRARE INC
CONSPIRARE INC (Texas) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,180,870 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($744,617). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $298k
What Conspirare Inc does
Mission
Inspired by the power of music to change lives, conspirare is a grammy-winning choir and nonprofit performing arts organization that believes in the power of music to change lives, inspire peace, and foster belonging. Conspirare, under the direction of craig hella johnson, engages a nationwide roster of singers to present an annual concert season of choral music that includes concerts in austin,texas and free livestream offerings. Conspirare tours regionally and nationally. Conspirare also produces recordings that are distributed internationally as cds and streaming albums. In addition, conspirare provides free community events including the big sing and collaborates wtih schools and other ogranizations to provide master classes and sessions with artistic director craig hella johnson and the conspirare artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Established in austin, texas in 1991, conspirare is a grammy-winning choir and nonprofit arts organization. Conspirare is an internationally recognized choir with a reputation for "expanding the boundaries of choral performance" (wall street journal). Conspirare, which translates from latin as "to breathe together," is led by founder and artistic director craig hella johnson, and is comprised of soloists from around the country. Conspirare presents an annual season and tours regionally, nationally, and internationally. Conspirare's extensive discography includes 17 internationally released albums on harmonia mundi (pias), delos and outhere and 19 self-produced conspirare christmas albums. The the sacred spirit of russia won the 2015 grammy for best choral performance and conspirare albums have received a total of twelve grammy nominations. In addition to the grammy-winning chamber choir, the organization also includes the conspirare symphonic choir. Conspirare provides outreach through programs including the big sing, on-campus masterclasses for high school choirs and their directors and concert-related offerings.
$1,471,720 spent$384,864 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,471,720.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $594k (−44%).
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: 2019 8% · 2020 16% · 2021 17% · 2022 29% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of CONSPIRARE INC’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 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.
Board chair
Nancy Lesch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $68k → $157k.
9 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 CONSPIRARE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
CONSPIRARE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
61% 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 CONSPIRARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 50% · 2019 45% · 2020 27% · 2021 19% · 2022 53% · 2023 29% — 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
33% of CONSPIRARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
57% of CONSPIRARE INC'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 $945k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
CONSPIRARE INC's revenue fell 21% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CONSPIRARE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $255k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$255k
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 CONSPIRARE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSPIRARE 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 CONSPIRARE INC?
- CONSPIRARE INC (Texas) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,180,870 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($744,617). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CONSPIRARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,180,870 in grants to CONSPIRARE INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSPIRARE INC?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $744,617 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSPIRARE INC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 35 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