California · Nonprofit
DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS
DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,443 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($10,215). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $234k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $150k
What Danville Girls Chorus does
Mission
Singers are taught the basics of vocal production and learn the fundamentals of musicianship and note reading. They are also exposed to a variety of musical styles ranging from classical and folk tunes to contemporary and pop music. Participation in this program develops a sense of responsibility, confidence and self-esteem in the singers. Its aim is to instill sensitivity to beauty, the arts and musicianship. The result is the enhancement of individual skills and lasting friendships and relationships among the group members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Although public performances are an important and necessary element of DGC, they are not the primary goal of Danville Girls Chorus. The Preparatory and Intermediate Choirs' chief goals are for singers to learn the basics of singing and musical concepts and to become comfortable with both. All singers participate in three major programs each year: Winter Concert, Spring Concert, and the Pops Concert. Additionally, girls in the Concert and Honor Choirs also perform in concerts with other performing ensembles, at festivals and for a variety of community and civic organizations.The DGC season runs September through the beginning of June. Girls in Concert Choir must also attend a one-week music camp in August. Each season has two semesters:
$212,757 spent$210,616 earned by the program100% of program spendingFall/Winter (Sept - Dec) and Spring (Jan - June). Holidays and breaks are scheduled to coincide with the San Ramon Valley Unified School District school year calendar.DGC offers a complete program of choral music education through a variety of learning experiences and performance opportunities. Singers are taught the basics of vocal production and learn the fundamentals of musicianship and note-reading. They are exposed to a variety of musical styles ranging from classical and folk tunes to contemporary and pop music.Participation in this program develops a sense of responsibility, confidence and self-esteem in the singers. Our aim is to instill sensitivity to beauty, the arts and musicianship. The result is the enhancement of individual skills, and lasting friendships and relationships among the group members.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $212,757.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $61k to $105k (+71%).
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: 2022 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS’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
DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
94% 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 DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS.
“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
94% of DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 904 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS: 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 DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS?
- DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,443 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($10,215). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $16,443 in grants to DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS.
- Who is the largest funder of DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,215 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANVILLE GIRLS CHORUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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