New York · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC
FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,300 to it, the largest being NEW MUSIC USA INC ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $506k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Friends of Chamber Music of Troy Ny Inc does
Mission
Friends of Chamber Music, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization that brings renowned musicians from around the world to New York's Capital Region. Since 1949, Friends has presented exceptional chamber music in acoustically superior public venues. Friends of Chamber Music is dedicated to educating and delighting audiences and to encouraging chamber music appreciation through community outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arts, Culture, and Humanities: Presented 6 live Chamber Music Concerts to a total audience of approximately 400 persons, including approximately 100 students.
$190,331 spentof which $60,000 as grants$32,710 earned by the program100% of program spendingThere is only one primary service
$0 spent0% of program spendingThere is only one primary service.
$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 FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $190,331.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $170k to $1.2M (+581%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 44% · 2023 27% · 2024 0% · 2025 12%. 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 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.
Chief executive
Michael Kirsty
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY 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
FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
57% 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 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC.
“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
100% of FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
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.
Government funding FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY 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 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC?
- FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,300 to it, the largest being NEW MUSIC USA INC ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,300 in grants to FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC?
- NEW MUSIC USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF TROY NY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing