Oregon · Nonprofit
HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC
HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC (Oregon) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,185 to it, the largest being THE STARSEED FOUNDATION ($40,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $280k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $182k
- Net assets
- $149k
What High Desert Chamber Music Inc does
Mission
High desert chamber music's mission is to bring world class chamber music and musicians to central oregon. Through our concert series and educational outreach programs, we aspire to heighten the level of appreciation, awareness, and understanding of this great genre of classical music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ticket sales for concert series
$216,719 spent$53,677 earned by the program100% of program spending-received grants from maybelle clark macdonald fund, oregon arts commission, creative west (formerly westaf), roundhouse foundation, and the deschutes cultural coalition -offered and achieved a matching grant challenge from the starseed foundation for the eighth year in a row -secured continued support from title sponsors: radio-combined communications, tv/ media-central oregon daily news, print-cascade a&e magazine, the bulletin -secured new 3-year commitment of educational outreach sponsor support from brooks resources corporation -continued invitation to participate in kwax presents, radio broadcasts of our concert series live performances -recipient of non-profit partnership with tds (bendbroadband) for the twelfth year -secured business sponsorships for concerts in the 2024-25 season - german master tech, pine tavern restaurant, mission building, miller lumber, drew family dentistry -presented a record-breaking hdcm concert series season, including record- setting valentine's day concert -annual gala had 50% increase in attendance and surpassed last year's funds raised -reached nearly 900 students in central oregon through educational outreach programs -collaboration with the…
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $216,719.
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 2021 to 2022, from $93k to $152k (+64%).
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: 2022 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $21k → $40k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC 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
HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
28% 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 HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 38% · 2019 33% · 2020 64% · 2021 48% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% — 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
40% of HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC'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
88% of HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$18k
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 HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC 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 HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC?
- HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC (Oregon) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $182,185 to it, the largest being THE STARSEED FOUNDATION ($40,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $182,185 in grants to HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC?
- THE STARSEED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 20 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