California · Nonprofit
ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION
ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being THE SIMON AND ANN CHEN FOUNDATION ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $143k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $188k
What Elite Music Foundation does
Mission
The Elite Chorus's mission is to use music education, cultural exchange, and music appreciation as a bridge to uphold Taiwanese American culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Elite Chorus's mission is to use music education, cultural exchange, and music appreciation as a bridge to uphold Taiwanese American culture.The Chorus consists of more than 40 singers who meet every Sunday from 6pm to 9pm and perform around US and Asia.
$102,579 spentof which $130,731 as grants100% of program spendingInvited Tainan Philhamonic Choir of Visually Impaired (from Taiwan) and performed three concerts in Los Angeles, Torance and Laguna Woods.
Performance a "Love and Betrayal" concert with chamber orchestra at San Gabriel Mission Playhouse in Los Angeles, California.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,579.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $159k to $199k (+25%).
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.
92% of ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Cliff T Yang
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin 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 ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
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 ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION: 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 ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION?
- ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being THE SIMON AND ANN CHEN FOUNDATION ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,000 in grants to ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION?
- THE SIMON AND ANN CHEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELITE MUSIC FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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