Tennessee · Nonprofit
HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC
HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,267,407 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($511,900). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Harmony Foundation International Inc does
Mission
To connect people through charitable giving to enrich lives through singing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Connect. - raising awarenessthe foundation's connect program invests in awareness, education, and scholarship opportunities for educators, singers, choral directors, and coaches. It provides resource materials to local communities of singers. The connect program educates singer and non-singer populations to the benefits of singing in community harmony. By connecting people with one another, the foundation is encouraging all generations from all backgrounds to break down barriers and actively engage with and include others in an activity that creates harmony - with their voices, in their neighborhoods, their schools, their workplaces, their homes, and the world. By providing educational opportunities, the foundation encourages perpetuation of arts and culture in communities along with the disciplines and benefits that further enhance the skills, techniques, and knowledge to promote lifelong community singing.
$193,826 spentof which $70,000 as grants$59,736 earned by the program19% of program spendingEnrich. - raising hopethe foundation's enrich program provides opportunities for lives to be enriched through singing to both singers and non-singers through performances, community engagements, programs and events, conventions, and celebrations. The foundation supports sharing the gift of singing as an extraordinary means of self- expression and self-actualization, making lives more enjoyable, satisfying, meaningful, and purposeful. Investments in the enrich program provide financial and other services to local communities of singers bhs chapters, bhs districts, and other organizations to encourage singer and audience participation, as well as add value to community events with staff participation. Through the enrich program, the foundation demonstrates that singing together celebrates the best of times, and provides strength, hope and inspiration to persevere through challenging times.
$387,641 spentof which $232,692 as grants$59,737 earned by the program37% of program spendingSing. - raising voicesthe foundation's sing program invests in the singing art form, with a significant emphasis on four-part vocal 'barbershop' harmony. The foundation provides grant and scholarship funding for singing participation activities to encourage and support programs throughout the country that promote, develop, and advance opportunities for lifelong singing to people of all ages and backgrounds.
$458,538 spentof which $192,789 as grants$59,737 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,040,005.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.2M to $8.3M (+15%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Dr Perry D White
Hfi president and CEO
Board chair
Kendall Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income fell $78k → $54k.
13 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 57% · 2019 49% · 2020 49% · 2021 65% · 2022 51% · 2023 37% — 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
28% of HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
87% of HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL 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. Of the $162k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 40 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Dba Barbershop Harmony Society · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC?
- HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,267,407 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($511,900). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,267,407 in grants to HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $511,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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