Texas · Nonprofit
HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC
HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,440 to it, the largest being THE HUMPHREYS FOUNDATION ($82,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $236k
- Net assets
- $59k
What Houston Masterworks Chorus Inc does
Mission
Provide performance opportunities for skilled volunteer singers, choral arts education for young people and adults, and a musical experience that lifts the spirits of performers and audiences alike.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Presentation of five concerts including community outreach.
$74,016 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,016.
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 2022 to 2023, from $21k to $48k (+136%).
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.
84% of HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Danielle Charvoz
Executive Director
Board chair
Vicki Merwin
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $43k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS 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
HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 51% · 2019 99% · 2020 83% · 2021 64% · 2022 39% · 2023 31% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $256 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS 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 HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC?
- HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $236,440 to it, the largest being THE HUMPHREYS FOUNDATION ($82,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $236,440 in grants to HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC?
- THE HUMPHREYS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSTON MASTERWORKS CHORUS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 7 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