Minnesota · Nonprofit
GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE
GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE (Minnesota) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $881,870 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($140,250). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $434k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $882k
- Net assets
- $442k
What Giving Voice Initiative does
Mission
Inspires and equips organizations to bring together people with alzheimer's and their care partners to sing in choruses that foster joy, well-being, purpose, and community understanding.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Choirs: gvi provides funding and support for three choirs in the twin cities that involve persons with dementia and their caregivers. These choruses weekly engage 180+ people in singing and learning new music for public performances. There are two 16-week sessions each year and one 8-week session in the summer led by a professional music director. These choruses serve as learning laboratories for gvi and assist in the development and refining of chorus programming.
$214,152 spent$10,483 earned by the program94% of program spendingOutreach: gvi builds awareness and understanding of the power of participating in choral singing for those with alzheimer's. This outreach is done by educating the community through national conferences, community presentations, partnerships with research organizations, and national leadership gatherings for dementia-friendly choruses around the country.
$11,871 spent5% of program spendingConsulting: gvi supports the launch and sustainability of new choruses for persons living with alzheimer's and their care partners. Gvi provides consulting expertise on alzheimer's programming and musical/arts production to maximize the potential of course design and community performances that change the stigma of alzheimer's. This consulting includes the use of the gvi toolkit, an online downloadable resource that provides a step-by-step guide for persons interested in a chorus, quarterly webinars, and the gv learning community, a network of choruses around the globe committed to sharing best practices.
$1,766 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $227,789.
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 2020 to 2021, from $190k to $324k (+70%).
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 4% · 2019 0% · 2020 22% · 2021 46% · 2022 11% · 2023 22% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Eyleen Braaten
Executive director
Board chair
Frank Bennett
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $44k → $123k.
7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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
GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
64% 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 GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 74% · 2019 71% · 2020 31% · 2021 33% · 2022 19% · 2023 12% — 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
45% of GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE'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
54% of GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE'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 $402k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $480k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $29k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$29k
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 GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE: 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 GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE?
- GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE (Minnesota) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $881,870 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($140,250). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $881,870 in grants to GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIVING VOICE INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 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