Virginia · Nonprofit
FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC
FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,921 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($46,153). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $173k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Fairfax Choral Society Inc does
Mission
Fairfax Choral Society serves the community by enriching lives through the performance, education, and appreciation of choral art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Production, promotion, and performance of choral music programs. As responsible stewards of the choral arts, FCS seeks to always produce high-quality performances by each of its performing ensembles. In accordance with the group's mission, FCS works tirelessly every season to perform concerts including new compositions, major choral works accompanied by a full orchestra, and multicultural and contemporary music. Our ensembles have toured internationally, and hosted visiting conductors and major vocal artists.
$51,283 spent$61,891 earned by the program30% of program spendingMusic education and training. FCS contributes to the choral arts calendar and enriches the cultural horizon of Northern Virginia as one of the largest Northern Virginia choral groups, with six choirs and four musicianship classes for singers from children to adult. Weekly choral rehearsals provide additional educational and vocal coaching opportunities to its members.
$118,753 spent$121,896 earned by the program70% of program spendingnone
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $170,036.
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.
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 $129k to $86k (−33%).
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 26% · 2022 12% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $14k → $10k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY 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
FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 41% · 2020 54% · 2021 48% · 2022 36% · 2023 97% — 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
FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k 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.
Organizations like FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY 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 Virginia
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
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 FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY 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 FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC?
- FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,921 to it, the largest being ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ($46,153). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $152,921 in grants to FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC?
- ARTS COUNCIL OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $46,153 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAIRFAX CHORAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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