Maryland · Nonprofit
Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc
Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $527,550 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($526,552). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $528k
- Net assets
- $327k
What Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc does
Mission
Glorystar Children's Chorus (GCC) provides excellent music education to children and youth (5-18 years old) with a rich repertoire of East Asian and Western music. GCC celebrates our Asian cultural heritage and creates an inclusive and enriching learning environment for singers to build connections within our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided excellent music education to 95 choristers, ages 5 to 18. Our studentcommunity is approximately 93% Asian or Asian descent, and 3% received some financial aid. The choristers are divided into five choir groups according to age and music knowledge: Prima, Dolce, Cantabile, Concert, and Chamber choirs. The music education includes vocal techniques, music theory, sight-reading, ear training, music appreciation and interpretation, and choral harmony. All choir groups returned to in-person rehearsals and concerts since August 2021.
$106,061 spent70% of program spendingPresented a total of 6 self produced public performances of Eastern and Westernchoral music, reaching an audience of more than 1100 people: 2 ticketed concerts and1 vocal competition/recital (free) and 3 free concerts were open to the public. All performances were accessible for individuals of all abilities.
$45,705 spent30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $151,766.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $185k to $261k (+41%).
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 23% · 2019 24% · 2020 38% · 2021 49% · 2022 29% · 2023 37% · 2024 20% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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
Carol Tseng
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $328k → $31k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation 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
Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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 Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $528k 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
Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves 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
Government funding Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation 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 Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation 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 Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc?
- Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $527,550 to it, the largest being ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER ($526,552). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $527,550 in grants to Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc?
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF MONTGOMER is the largest funder on record, with $526,552 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Glorystar Music Education and Cultural Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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